Microfinance Gateway Anyone looking for data on microfinance should look to this metasite that brings together current news, research, discussion groups, organizations, and publications. MicroLinks Another research gateway. This one is from USAID. There is quite a bit of literature on this site if you dig through the navigation on the left. Keywords: microfinance, microcredit,…
NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research NBER is a privite nonprofit research organization focusing on economic research. Their goal is to support and disseminate research to decision makers of all kinds, whether public, private or academic. The page linked above lists data sources associated with NBER research. These data come from individual researchers, government…
Directory of Development Organizations One of the most comprehensive guides online to NGOs. It lists 47,500 development organizations, not limited to NGOs, but also including governmental agencies, research institutions, private sector and the like.
Guide to Freely Available International Data Resources An annotated list of major free comparative national-level data sources, compiled by ESDS International.
The Think Tanks page on the Statistical Resources for Political Science site (U of Michigan Documents Center) lists several comprehensive directories of think tanks. It also features an alphabetical list of major think tanks and links to their web sites. Another comprehensive directory is the World Think Tank Directory from the Policy Library. Also, the…
Sponsored by the American Economic Association, the RFE site lists and annotates 2,100 resources including datasets, data catalogs, metasites, and much more. This is a great place to get a sense of available data or to start a search for data.
The Madiera portal …harvests statistical datasets and variables published on the Semantic Web from all the largest European social sciences data archives, organizes them using a set of multilingual thesauri and taxonomies and makes them available through a responsive and highly customizable Web interface… The Madiera project has provided a common integrated interface to the…
Paul Hensel’s International Relations Data Site is my favorite place to start a search for IR data or statistics. Searchable and very well organized, every source is annotated with study-level description, spatial-temporal scope and variables included. Categories are: International data (general) International conflict and cooperation data International economic data International environmental data International political data…
SOSIG is an excellent metasite of online resources in the social sciences. I use this site frequently to find statistics and data sources, digital libraries, open source publications, governement and ngo agencies that publish on a topic, and other free sources. Every source is selected, indexed, and annotated, which makes it easy to search the…
Data on the Net From the University of California, San Diego’s searchable listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.