IMF Video Content
- International Monetary Fund: Video ContentThe IMF is adding visual context to its website, www.imf.org (in the form of videos), to augment the understanding of the data that they generate. The videos are are freely available.
Food Insecurity
Food Security in an Uncertain World by Call Number: View Full Text via Emerald eBooksISBN: 1785602136Publication Date: 2015-12-15
The State of food Insecurity in the World by ISBN: 9251073163Publication Date: 2012See the most current information from the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:
http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/
Water Resources and Industry
- Water Resources and IndustryWater Resources and Industry is a new open access journal produced by the scholarly publisher Elsevier, in association with the International Water Association.
Globalization Topics: Online Reference Sources:
- Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
This database provides background, news, academic articles, and statistics on topics of global importance and current world events. To choose from a selection of topics, choose View All from the Browse Issues & Topics box. - EIU Viewpoint This link opens in a new windowSuccessor to Country Commerce (EIU)
Assess global dynamics with insights into a country’s political, policy and economic outlook, and proprietary ratings on the business environment. Successor to Country Commerce (EIU) - Euromonitor International Passport (Passport GMID) This link opens in a new windowPassport is a source of international market research. That said, consumer behavior depends on a mixture of local & global trends and events. Passport does a good job of connecting the dots between the global events and international consumer behavior and markets.
- IMF e-Library This link opens in a new windowThe International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary provides perspectives on "...globalization, development, trade and aid, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, and poverty reduction."
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe Organization for Cooperation & Development provides detailed economic reports, and reports on topics of a global or regional nature, such as lessons learned from natural disasters, or causes and effects of migration. Enter a search, or browse by "theme" or "country".
- OECD iLibrary: Tutorials on YouTubeOffers tips on navigating OECD iLibrary, and provides several videos presenting facts taken from the content of the iLibrary.
- OECD Blog: "OECD Ecoscope""The ecoscope blog aims to increase dialogue on topical economic issues beyond the usual OECD audiences. Blog authors are OECD economists writing on their current field of research reaching out to other experts across the world to generate discussion on an array of economic issues."
- World Bank Open Data This link opens in a new windowThe World Bank is providing specialized coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, http://datatopics.worldbank.org/universal-health-coverage/coronavirus/
World at Risk by ISBN: 1568027079Topics range from 'Income Inequality' to 'Deforestation,' and articles frequently include tables and charts.
World Bank Publications
Environmental Issues
Environment at a Glance 2020 by Call Number: Online at OECD iLibraryISBN: 9264498559Publication Date: 2020-03-17"Presents a digest of major environmental trends in areas such as climate change, biodiversity, water resources, air quality."
Civil Liberties / Human Rights:
- Health and Human Rights: An International JournalHealth and Human Rights is an online, open-access publication, supported by the FXB Harvard School of Public Health, the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, and the Harvard Health and Human Rights Consortium.
- Freedom in the WorldCall Number: REF JC571 .F66This annual series provides "comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties," in over 195 countries and territories. It has been published annually since 1972. It is available online, from 2002 to the present.