AGEC 340

Research resources you need to complete the Country Paper and Country Position Paper

Country Paper Resources

• Country Background Notes -
  The U.S. Department of State publishes Background Notes that provide information on foreign countries and international organizations and are updated periodically.
  
• EIU CountryData
  A database of annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts. EIU CountryData gives you access to 278 series on 117 countries and 40 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forward to 2005.
  
• World Development Indicators
  World Development Reports
  World Bank data from publications such as Social Indicators of Development, World Debt Tables, and World Tables. WDI is a searchable database of over 500 different demographic and economic data elements. World Development Reports contain in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of development.
• United Nations Social Indicators
  Social indicator statistics tracked by the United Nations for country comparison purposes.
• Penn World Tables
  PWT provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004.
• GlobalEDGE - International Resources Portal
  
• More sources can be found at the M&E Library International Business Topic Area.

Country Position Paper

Research the positions of your country and the groups that your country belongs to. By now, you should be assigned a country with the respective groups (example:Cairns) that country associates itself with under the World Trade Organization (WTO). You will need to explore various facets of the WTO website in order to find your information.

International Government Agencies

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • Agriculture Negotations
• International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development
  • Ag Trade Policy
  • IPRsonline
• Selected Trading Groups (Translate Web text with Babelfish)
  • ASEAN
  • Cairns
  • European Union
  • G-20
  • Mercosur
  • Oxfam
• AgEcon Search Research papers and published articles on topics of agriculture and agirucultural economics
• SourceOECD
  Access to international economics organization’s reports, with an emphasis on their statistical information.
• World Bank Group
  • Countries & Regions
  • Prospects for the Global Economy
• World Bank E-Library
  Thousands of books, reports and documents from the World Bank Group.
• GlobalEDGE - International Resources Portal

Other Sources

• Office of the United States Trade Representative
  • Trade Agreements
  • Trade Sectors
• USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
  Access to ERS, NASS, WAOB documents and data.
• USDA Economic Research Service: TRADE

Articles

• Agricola
  AGRICOLA includes citations (with abstracts) to journal articles, book chapters, books, USDA publications, and Experiment Station reports that have been acquired by the National Agricultural Library from 1979 to the present.
  
  
• CAB Abstracts
  The CAB database is the largest professionally-produced database covering international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines. The database contains over 3 million records from over 10,000 journals, books, conferences, theses, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally.  Subjects covered include animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering, economics, recreation and tourism, veterinary medicine, human nutrition, and rural development. Coverage is from 1973 to the present, with the abstracts in English prepared from papers originally published in over 70 different languages.
  
  
• Econlit
  Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database covers the international literature on economics since 1969 and provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more.
  
  
• Factiva
  Business news and articles, current company and stock information, and the Wall Street Journal full-text.  Large selection of international newspapers and business publications

Where to find the full-text of an article:

• Ejournal Finder
  Find where a magazine or journal is available full-text online.

Last update: March 10, 2008