U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations (Greenbook) The most comprehensive source for United States aid to foreign countries. “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.…
Compare Minnesota is a new feature of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) web site. It provides comparable statistics for Minnesota and other states in the following subjects: Economic performance Business climate Labor force Quality of Education Innovation Presence of Fortune 500 companies and employment in hot industries Consumer prices Investment and…
EconStats is one of my favorite places to look for global monetary and financial statistics. Types of statistics you can find at this site: Foreign exchange rates by day, week, month, quarter or year Global interest rates Global stock markets Macro variables from GDP and unemployment to money and quasi money Spot prices and futures
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,…
Migrant-Remittances The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) web site is a good place to look for remittance data such as: Remittances to select Latin American countries (by destination country) for 2005 and also annually back to 2001 Remittances from the US to Latin America (by source US state) for 2006 and 2004 See also the Remittances…
A: One good place to look is the IMF annual report, World Economic Outlook. The 2006 report can be viewed online as a full PDF report, chapter by chapter, or search the World Economic Outlook database. Not all tables from the report are in the database, though, so if you can’t find what you need…
Death and Taxes is a fascinating visualization of the path that U.S. taxes take. It is one of many data visualization methods featured on the Visual Complexity web site, and Steve Krause, on his blog, wonders if such data visualizations qualify as art.
Economic Freedom of the World Data and reports from the Fraser Institute, measuring the extent to which 127 nations allow their citizens economic freedom. The report contains detailed country tables. Data from 1970 to 2004 are available for download. Also note that the library holds print versions of the 2005 and 2006 reports.
Statistical Abstract of Latin America. (SALA) CC Reference HA 935 .S79 (older editions back to 1962 in general stacks) Reliable statistical series on societies, economies, and politics in Latin America. “SALA compiles and presents data from some 250 national and international sources for twenty Latin American countries. To meet the needs of analysts interested in…
Michael F. Goodchild, at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Dept. of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, offers some thoughts about spatial literacy and GIS education from the primary to tertiary levels.