Development links

General Resources on Countries

 

• Richard Kimber’s Area Studies Webpage
• Banks' Political Handbook of the World
• CIA World Factbook
• The Economist Country Surveys

 

Resources on Poverty

 

• Poverty Net Webguide (World Bank)

 

International Organizations

• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)  
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• OECD
• United Nations Development Programme
• UNICEF
• World Bank
• World Food Programme

 

Various Statistical Datasets on Political and Economic Development

• World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992
• World Bank Data Archive
• Economic Growth Project of the World Bank
• Economic Freedom Index
• Trends in Developing Economies
• UNICEF Statistical Profiles of Countries
• UN Development and Demographic Trends
• International Political, Economic and Demographic data
• Harvard CID-World Bank DataMart
• Polity Archive
• Freedom House Rankings, 1972 - 1999 and 1998 - 1999 Survey
• World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992