OECD iLibrary & website; IMF eLibrary
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowThe Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD) is made up of 30+ countries. It produces research and reports on the economic, social, and environmental issues.
- OECD-WTO: Statistics on Trade in Value Added (TiVA)"This database breaks with conventional measurements of trade, which record gross flows of goods and services each time they cross borders. It seeks instead to analyse the value added by a country in the production of any good or service that is then exported, and offers a fuller picture of commercial relations between nations. [...] TiVA is part of the “Made in the World” initiative."
- What can the TiVA database tell us?A brief overview from the OECD website on the " importance of measuring trade on a value added basis as a complement to the traditional gross basis."
- Measuring Trade in Value Added: An OECD-WTO joint initiativeAn Introduction to Trade in Value Added (TiVA) - from the OECD website.
- 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."
Online Reference Books
- Europa World This link opens in a new window
Europa World is the online version of the annual Europa World Year Book. Note the section devoted to International Organizations, which includes the United Nations, major Non-UN Organizations, and other International Organizations.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics by Call Number: View full text via SpringerlinkISBN: 9781349951215Publication Date: 2020
Selected Publications produced by International Organizations
Each of the links below runs a search in the Library's catalog, in which:
- the organization is a (corporate) author;
- the results have been limited to what is available online (limit > material > ebooks),
- the results have been sorted by date (most recent).
World Bank
- World Bank LiveListen and watch live events, panel discussions, and other speeches held at the World Bank. Some events are may be available in multiple languages. For example, on 4/15/15 "Big Data for a More Resilient Future" will be live streamed in Spanish, French, and Arabic. Scroll a good way down the page to "Completed Events" to view archived content.
- World Bank Group: Doing Business Project"Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 190 economies."
Reference Books
The Statesman's YearbookISBN: 0230206034The subtitle of this is annual series is "The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World." Part 1 covers International Organizations.
