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Africa Confidential

One of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent.

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ECA Library

ECA Library's Online Catalogue (OPAC)

Africa Development Indicators (ADI)

ADI is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

AGROVOC

Multilingual, structured and controlled thesaurus designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment).

African Journals Online (AJOL)

AJOL is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, hosting the content of over 380 African-published, peer-reviewed journals from 29 countries.

Columbia Gazetteer

A database of names and basic geographic descriptions of over 165,000 places in the world.

Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations

Maintained by the IMF and provides brief guides to regional economic organizations

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)

Facilitated by IFPRI, ASTI compiles, analyzes, and publicizes data on institutional developments, investments, and capacity trends in agricultural R&D in low- and middle-income countries worldwide.

1500 sources on gender and women's issues in over 190 countries.

FAOSTAT

Contains over 3 million time-series records on agriculture and food related areas.

AllAfrica Global Media

On-line service that reports daily news on African countries (mainly from African media organizations). Its business section often discusses economic development issues.

ITC (International Trade Center)

Data of the ITC's technical cooperation activities at country and regional level.

Center for Global Development

CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.

Econlit

Indexed bibliography with selected abstracts from more than 550 economic journals. Searchable in English, French and Spanish.

JOLIS

Library Network, serving the World Bank Group and IMF

COMESA

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

MDG Indicators Database

Official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

CGIAR Virtual Library

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGVLibrary: From just one search engine, tap into leading agricultural information databases, including the online libraries of all the CCGIAR centers.

Encyclopedia Brittanica

General encyclopedia in English.

Millenium Development Goals Monitor

Information on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Free access to a variety of publications sponsored, supported or published by CODERSIA

Encyclopedia Britannica's Global Reference

Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language reference, that includes Encyclopaedia Universalis, as well as similar encyclopedias in Spanish, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese

NGO Directory

Contains contact information on NGO's in the world.

DIAL

Etudes economiques et sociales sur les pays en developpement

Europa World of Learning

Contacts of major knowledge institutions in the world.

ODS

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis. Access to the Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.

Directory of Development Organizations

Searchable directory of development organizations, listing approx. 65,000 development organizations

Financial Times

Delivers definitive news and analysis

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Website

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. There are now 5256 journals in the directory, 2189 of which are searchable at article level (as of August, 2010.)

Global Economic Monitor (GEM)

Provides access to up-to-date analysis of global economic conditions, from over 130 countries are also provided.

ReliefWeb (OCHA)

The UN Office for Humanitarian Aid's source for humanitarian information and analysis. The most relevant content is readily available on ReliefWeb, or delivered to you through your preferred channel (RSS, e-mail, mobile phone, Twitter and Facebook).

East African Community (EAC) Portal

The East African Community (EAC) is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

Treaty Series

All multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary- General of the United Nations and those formerly deposited with the League of Nations - their latest status and a link to the full texts, plus Bilateral and multilateral treaties registered with and published by the United Nations Secretariat in accordance with Article 102 up to a certain date - Detailed treaty references and full texts in all authentic language(s)

ECOWAS

Website of the Economic Community of West African States

UN Comtrade

The largest depository of international trade data available, with over 1.7 billion data records for 45 years. Time series of data for reporter countries starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year. Over 170 reporter countries provide their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries, which are subsequently transformed into the United Nations Statistics Division.

EconPapers

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software

UN Documentation Centre

Direct access to documents of the General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat and Economic and Social Council.

Global Development Finance (GDF)

This World Bank database covers more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 128 countries with data from 1970 to 2008.

JSTOR

Exhaustive collection of digitised back issues of core scholarly journals in science, biology, art and economics.

UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Website of the UN Economic and Social Council

Institut français des relations internationales

Keesing's Record of World Events

News reports from all over the world since 1931.

UN General and Mission Maps

General maps, thematic and peacekeeping missions maps, and other GIS Data from the UN Cartographic Section.

NBER

Full-text access to publications and working papers of USNBER.

UN General Assembly (GA)

Website of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

The New York Times

The daily newspaper as well as the possibility of searching most of the archives.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Online version of the vintage guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million English words, both present and past.  It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

UN Press Releases

Provides access to press releases of the United Nations

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)

PRSPs describe the country's macroeconomic, structural and social policies and programs over a three year or longer horizon to promote broad-based growth and reduce poverty, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing.

Oxford Reference Online(ORO)

Provides search and retrieval access to 100+ reference books in the Oxford Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles, including the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

UN Pulse

UN Pulse alerts you to selected just-released UN online information, major reports, publications and documents.

SADC

Southern Africa Development Community Library Catalogue with Links to African and Global Newspapers by Country.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) E-books: Economics & Finance

Provides access to e-books on economics, finance, environment and development studies.

UNAIDS

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Website

TERMIUM

Trilingual (English, French and Spanish) terminological and linguistic databases developed by the Government of Canada.

Proquest

Extensive collection of published materials from journals, periodicals, dissertations, newspapers and magazines in UMI?s vast archives of bibliographies and full-text sources

UNBISNET

The online catalogue of the United Nations' Dag Hammarskjöld Library

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

IFPRI offers full-text access to a large portion of their featured publications, data sets and other knowledge products, including research tools, indicators, bibliographies and more.

Science Direct

Offers full-text access to peer-reviewed academic journals in the social science, technical and medical fields.

UNCTAD Digital Library

The digital library of UNCTAD?s publications enables interested readers to access references to the knowledge generated by the organization through its intergovernmental and expert meetings, as well as its analyses and research.

UMA

L'Union du Maghreb arabe

UNdata

UNdata replaces the UN Common Database. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point where users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.  The UNCDB series are currently available through UNdata under the new name "Key indicators".

World Bank-Africa Portal

Includes links to WB publications, data sets, regional initiatives and project summaries

World Bank e-library

An online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.

World Bank DataBank

Includes Country Profiles, Key Indicators by Topics, as well as an open access Data Catalog with download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources

Cambridge Journals Online

Full-text access to all 294 peer-reviewed academic journals from Cambridge University Press

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Featuring content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), IEL contains almost one-third of the world?s current literature in electrical engineering, communications and computer science.

UNTERM

United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database : 85,000 Entries In 6 Official Languages, updated daily

World Newspapers Online: Africa

Online version of African newspapers

Sage Journals Online

Over 550 peer-reviewed journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM fields.

WTO Resources Gateway

Provides access to the World Trade Organisation?s statistics, research and official publications, including legal texts and agreements.

Emerald Insight e-resources

Currently offers online access to a growing collection of more than 550 volumes from more than 70 book series titles and 150 business and management journals.