Development

• Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) "is the largest online resource for USAID funded, international development documentation." The site provides citations for reports, electronic copies of selected titles, and an online ordering system.
• U. S. Agency for International Development provides a full text reports.
• Development Experience System (a searchable bibliographic database with citations to USAID reports)
• Evaluation Reports
• U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants (Green Book) The Greenbook shows a complete historical record of United States' (U.S.) foreign aid to the rest of the world by reporting all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for each fiscal year (back to 1946).

• Asian Development Bank
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development collects information from its members on international development.
• Development Statistics This is a link to free sources of developmental statistics
• International Development Statistics Online These databases cover bilateral and multilateral donors' aid and other resource flows to developing countries and countries in transition.
• SourceOECD International Development Statistics CU
• SourceOECD International Direct Investment Statistics CU contains information on how governments and individuals invest in other countries.
• SourceOECD Books on Development CU
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) This fund provides money and support to developing countries.
• Country Information IMF reports and publications listed by country.
• International Financial Statistics CU This database contains financial data collected by the IMF.
• World Economic Outlook Databases This database contains time series data for GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, payments balances, exports, imports, external debt, capital flows, commodity prices, more.
• United Nations Development Programme provides extensive information, including:
• Human Development Report highlights
• National Human Development Report highlights
• Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty includes country profiles on individual countries, an overview of the issue, and an executive summary.
• UNICEF
• Information by Country
• See Progress of Nations, State of the World's Children and other publications.
• World Bank includes a wide variety of information. Includes access to:
• Data and Statistics
• Operations Evaluation Department documents
• Projects Search "Bank's on-line database, provides data and information on the current portfolio of pipeline, active, dropped, and closed projects. "
• World Bank World Development Sources a service of the World Bank with full text economic reports, staff appraisal reports, and other publications. Access by country, sector, or report type. Requires a plugin for onscreen viewing and printing which is available at the site. Includes publications 1988-present.
• Joint Bank Fund Library Network The catalog of the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank Library. The library catalog includes the holdings of the library and indexing to about 800 periodicals on economics and finance. The catalog includes links to periodical articles when an online edition exists. An excellent source of information on international economics, finance, and the activities of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
• World Bank e-Library CU This database contains reports and working papers from the World Bank.
• World Development Indicators CU contains data on the global economy from the World Bank. This database contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960-present for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data are available in five categories: people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links.
• World Development Reports

• Collection on Critical Global Issues a full text library of material from the United Nations University Press and other publishers that "contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology". From the New Zealand Digital Library, a site with several important collections of digital materials from intergovernmental and international organizations.
• Development Gateway this non-profit group works to enable development by "building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development." You can browse this web site by topic and country.
• ELDIS "Eldis is a gateway to online information on development in countries of the South. Coverage includes social, economic, political and environmental issues. Eldis makes a qualitative selection of materials and structures it for easy access." The Country Profiles include reports by sector, links to maps, statistics, and reports from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, United Nations Industrial Development Fund, World Trade Organization, and Amnesty International.
• Humanity Development Library "is a large collection of practical information aimed at helping reduce poverty, increasing human potential, and providing a practical and useful education for all. This version, 2.0, contains 1,230 publications--books, reports, and magazines--in various areas of human development, from agricultural practice to economic policies, from water and sanitation to society and culture, from education to manufacturing, from disaster mitigation to micro-enterprises." From the New Zealand Digital Library, a site with several important collections of digital materials from intergovernmental and international organizations.
• InfoTrac Onefile CU Use this database to find profiles from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on particular countries. These reports enable comparison of the various statistics collected by the different international organizations and governments.
• International Development Research Center provides reports, links, access to databases on IDRC funded projects and more.
• WIDNET Women In Development Statistics arranged by world region includes the following datasets: Population - Family - Households, Health, Education - Training, Labour, Power

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on development available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  develop* and countr* and statistics	develop* and countr* and statistics
  developing countries	developing countries
  developing countries and case studies	developing countries and case studies
  develop* and aid (government publications only)	develop* and aid (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Debt and Budget Information
• Trade