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| Blackwell-Synergy
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ECA
Library
ECA
Library’s Online Catalogue |
African
Journals Online
Tables
of content and abstracts from over 160 journals
published in Africa. |
| Columbia Gazetteer
A
database of names and basic geographic descriptions
of over 165,000 places in the world. |
AGROVOC
Multilingual
thesaurus containing terms of agriculture and
other related subjects. |
Council
for the Development of Social Science Research
in Africa (CODESERIA) |
| Contemporary
Women’s Issues
1500
sources on gender and women‘s issues in over
190 countries. |
Comtrade
Detailed
imports and exports statistics of close to 200
countries or areas. |
DIAL
Etudes economiques et sociales sur les pays en developpement. |
| Ebscohost
Over
7 300 abstracted and indexed journals. 6 000
of these are available in full-text. |
Directory
of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations
Maintained
by the IMF and provides brief guides to regional
economic organizations |
Directory
of Development Organizations
Lists
of 53,800 development organizations. |
| Econlit
Indexed
bibliography with selected abstracts from more
than 550economic journals. Searchable in English,
French and Spanish. |
Economic and Social
Council
Website of the UN Economic and Social Council |
Directory of Open Access
Journals
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific
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| Economic
Intelligence Unit (EIU)
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access to EIU country reports and profiles,
global economic analysis and forecasts and press
releases. |
FAOSTAT
Contains
over 3 million time-series records on agriculture
and food related areas. |
Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) |
| Elsevier
Economics Handbooks
Full-text
e-books on Economics. |
General
Assembly
Website of the General Assembly of the United
Nations. |
EconPapers
Collection
of full-text economics working papers. |
| Encyclopeadie Universalis
General
encyclopedia in French. |
General
& Mission Maps
General
maps, thematic and peacekeeping missions maps. |
Institut français
des relations internationales (IFRI) |
| Encyclopedia Brittanica
General
encyclopedia in English. |
ITC (International
Trade Center)
Data
of the ITC‘s technical cooperation activities
at country and regional level. |
National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Full-text
access to publications and working papers of
USNBER. |
| Encyclopedia
of Data Warehousing and Mining |
Millenium
Development Goals
Website on the United Nations Millenium Development
Goals, including documentation and news. |
New
York Times
The
daily newspaper as well as the possibility of
searching most of the archives. |
| Encyclopedia
of Digital Government |
Millenium Development
Goals Monitor
Information on progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) |
Southern
Africa Development Community |
| Encyclopedia
of Gender and Information Technology |
NGO Directory
Contains
contact information on NGO‘s in the world. |
Online
newspapers published in Africa
SADC
list of African Newspapers |
| Encyclopedia
of Information Science and Technology |
ODS
Provides
access to UN Parliamentary and Secretariat documents. |
World Legal
Information Institute (WLII) Catalogue and Web
search
Provides
links to over 15,000 law-related websites in
every country of the world. |
| Encyclopedia
of Knowledge Management |
Treaty
Series
Treaties
and agreements reached between countries and
countries and the UN. |
World Newspapers
Online: Africa
Online
version of African newspapers. |
| Europa World of Learning
Contacts
of major knowledge institutions in the world. |
UN Documentation
Centre
Direct access to documents of the General Assembly,
Security Council, Secretariat and Economic and
Social Council. |
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| Financial Times
Delivers
definitive news and analysis. : |
UN Press Releases
Provides
access to press releases of the United Nations. |
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| Francis
1.5
million bibliographic records covering humanities
and social sciences. Searchable in English,
French and Spanish.: |
UN
Pulse
UN Pulse alerts you to selected just-released
UN online information, major reports, publications
and documents. |
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| Global
Development Finance (GDF)
Provide
direct access to over 200 debt and financial
flow indicators for more than 133 countries. |
United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development
Autonomous UN agency that carries out research
on the social dimensions of contemporary problems
affecting development. As an institution engaging
in applied research in the field of social development,
UNRISD's agenda reflects global trends, as well
as the realities of countries in which it carries
out research. |
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| Global Economic
Monitor (GEM)
Provides
access to up-to-date analysis of global economic
conditions, from over 130 countries are also
provided. |
UNTERM
Special
terms in all 6 languages of the UN. |
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| JSTOR
It
holds complete digitised back issues of core
scholarly journals in science, biology, art
and economics. |
WTO Documents
Online
Provides
access to the official documentation of the
World Trade Organisation including legal texts
and agreements. |
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| Keesing’s
Record of World Events
News
reports from all over the world since 1931. |
WTO Resources
Gateway
Provides
access to the World Trade Organisation‘s statistics,
research and publications |
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| OECD Periodicals
The
resource offers 14 journals and newsletters
on different topics within Economics as well
as 10 statistical periodicals. |
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| OECD Online Books
& Journals
SourceOECD
Books comprises 20 thematic areas. The areas
covered include economics, governance. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary
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. |
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| Oxford Reference
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. |
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| OxfordE-books:
Economics & Finance
Provides
access to e-books on economics, finance, environment
and development studies. |
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Oxford
E-Books: Political Science
Provides
access to e-books on governance, political science
and public administration. |
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Proquest
It provides access to an extensive
collection of published materials from journals,
periodicals, dissertations, newspapers and magazines
in UMI‘s vast archives of bibliographies and
full-text sources. |
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Science
Direct
Offers social science, technical and
medical full-text and bibliographic
information |
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| Termium
It
is a trilingual (English, French and Spanish)
terminological and linguistic database.
It is developed by the Government of Canada.
Users do not complete the login details. They
only need to click on launch |
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UN
Common Database
It
provides selected series from numerous specialized
international data sources for all available
countries and areas. |
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| World
Development Indicators (WDI)
Provides access to over 900 development indicators for more than 208
countries from 1960 onwards. The indicators
are divided into 6 sections namely world view,
people, environment, states and markets, economy
and global links. |
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