| African
Journals Online
Tables
of content and abstracts from over 160 journals
published in Africa. |
| AGROVOC
Multilingual
thesaurus containing terms of agriculture and
other related subjects. |
| Blackwell-Synergy 
Content
for most Blackwell journals. |
| Columbia Gazetteer
A
database of names and basic geographic descriptions
of over 165,000 places in the world. |
| Comtrade
Detailed
imports and exports statistics of close to 200
countries or areas. |
| Common
Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- promoting regional economic integration through
trade and investment. |
| Contemporary Women’s Issues
1500
sources on gender and women‘s issues in over
190 countries. |
| Council
for the Development of Social Science Research
in Africa (CODESERIA)
CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of
Social Science Research in Africa is headquartered
in Dakar Senegal. It was established in 1973
as an independent Pan-African research organisation
with a primary focus on the social sciences,
broadly defined. It is recognised not only as
the pioneer African social research organisation
but also as the apex non-governmental centre
of social knowledge production on the continent.
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| DIAL
Etudes economiques et sociales sur les pays en developpement. |
| Directory
of Development Organizations
Lists
of 53,800 development organizations. |
| Directory of Economic,
Commodity and Development Organizations
Maintained
by the IMF and provides brief guides to regional
economic organizations |
| Directory
of Open Access Journals
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals. |
| Ebscohost
Over
7 300 abstracted and indexed journals. 6 000
of these are available in full-text. |
| ECA
Library
ECA
Library’s Online Catalogue |
| Econlit
Indexed
bibliography with selected abstracts from more
than 550economic journals. Searchable in English,
French and Spanish. |
| EconPapers
Collection
of full-text economics working papers. |
| Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
The Economic Community Of West African States
(ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen countries,
founded in 1975. Its mission is to promote economic
integration in "all fields of
economic activity, particularly industry, transport,
telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural
resources, commerce, monetary and financial
questions, social and cultural matters ....."
The Institutions of the Economic Community Of
West African States (ECOWAS) are as follows |
| Economic
and Social Council
Website of the UN Economic and Social Council |
| Economic
Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Provide
access to EIU country reports and profiles,
global economic analysis and forecasts and press
releases. |
| Elsevier
Economics Handbooks
Full-text
e-books on Economics. |
| Encyclopeadie Universalis
General
encyclopedia in French. |
| Encyclopedia Brittanica
General
encyclopedia in English. |
| Encyclopedia
of Data Warehousing and Mining |
| Encyclopedia
of Digital Government |
| Encyclopedia
of Gender and Information Technology |
| Encyclopedia
of Information Science and Technology
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| Encyclopedia
of Knowledge Management |
| Europa World of Learning
Contacts
of major knowledge institutions in the world. |
| FAOSTAT
Contains
over 3 million time-series records on agriculture
and food related areas. |
| Financial Times
Delivers
definitive news and analysis. : |
| Francis
1.5
million bibliographic records covering humanities
and social sciences. Searchable in English,
French and Spanish.: |
| GDF
Provide
direct access to over 200 debt and financial
flow indicators for more than 133 countries. |
| General Assembly
Website of the General Assembly of the United
Nations. |
| Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
Provides
access to up-to-date analysis of global economic
conditions, from over 130 countries are also
provided. |
| General &
Mission Maps
General
maps, thematic and peacekeeping missions maps. |
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| ITC (International Trade
Center)
Data of the ITC‘s technical cooperation activities at country
and regional level. |
| JSTOR
It holds complete digitised back issues of core scholarly
journals in science, biology, art and economics. |
| Keesing’s Record of World Events
News reports from all over the world since 1931. |
| UN Millenium Development Goals
Website on the United Nations Millenium Development
Goals, including documentation and news. |
| Millenium
Development Goals Monitor
Information on progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Full-text access to publications and working papers of
USNBER. |
| New York Times
The daily newspaper as well as the possibility of searching
most of the archives. |
| NGO Directory
Contains contact information on NGO‘s in the world. |
| ODS
Provides access to UN Parliamentary and Secretariat documents. |
| OECD Periodicals
The resource offers 14 journals and newsletters on different
topics within Economics as well as 10 statistical
periodicals. |
| OECD Online Books & Journals
SourceOECD Books comprises 20 thematic areas. The areas
covered include economics, governance. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| OxfordE-books:
Economics & Finance
Provides
access to e-books on economics, finance, environment
and development studies. |
Oxford
E-Books: Political Science
Provides
access to e-books on governance, political science
and public administration. |
| 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. |
| Science Direct
Offers social science, technical and medical full-text
and bibliographic information |
| Southern
Africa Development Community
Online
newspapers published in Africa
The Southern African Development Community (SADC)
has been in existence since 1980, when it was
formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled
States in Southern Africa known as the Southern
African Development Coordination Conference
(SADCC), with the main aim of coordinating development
projects in order to lessen economic dependence
on the then apartheid South Africa. The founding
Member States are: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic
of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| 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. |
| Treaty Series
Treaties and agreements reached between countries and countries
and the UN. |
| UN Documentation Centre
Direct access to documents of the General Assembly,
Security Council, Secretariat and Economic and
Social Council |
| UN
Millenium Development Goals
Website on the United Nations Millenium Development
Goals, including documentation and news. |
| UN Pulse
UN Pulse alerts you to selected just-released
UN online information, major reports, publications
and documents. |
| UN Press Releases
Provides access to press releases of the United Nations. |
| UNTERM
Special terms in all 6 languages of the UN. |
| United
Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Autonomous UN angency 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. |
| 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. |
| World Legal Information
Institute (WLII) Catalogue and Web search
Provides links to over 15,000 law-related websites in every
country of the world. |
| World Newspapers Online:
Africa
Online version of African newspapers. |
| WTO Documents Online
Provides access to the official documentation of the World
Trade Organisation including legal texts and
agreements. |
| WTO Resources Gateway
Provides access to the World Trade Organisation‘s statistics,
research and publications |
