International Links for Economics

Economic data and information on other nations can be found at a variety of sites. A few good starting places are provided below. 

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	ECONbase, Elsevier Science/ScienceDirect/International Association of Agricultural Economists	Agricultural Economics Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.	Jun 24, 2003
	Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau	Country by 1-digit SITC Commodity Trade Data Products traded with the U.S., listed in tables by month for each country. Data available beginning 1996.	Jun 7, 2002
	Bailey, Ken	Dairy Outlook Web Site This site provides access to a variety of data on the dairy industry. There is Pennsylvania dairy market information as well as national data on milk production, dairy product production, dairy products in cold storage, commercial disapperance of milk and dairy products, prices, import/export data, and more. (more)	Jul 29, 2002
	American Economic Association	EconLit This site provides information about EconLit, an electronic bibliography of international economics literature. It includes a description of this resource, a listing of vendors through which to access EconLit, the listing of subject descriptors used, search hints, and more. (more)	Sep 30, 2002
	Karlsson, Sune	EconPapers This database provides access to RePEc, a collection of on-line economics papers, journal articles, and software. Abstracts and bibliographic info are provided, as well as links to the full text for most documents. Free economics software is available for download. (more)	Aug 21, 2002
	Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization	European Health For All Database Online access and the ability to download the European Health For All Database. Includes data for demographic and socio-economic indicators, mortality and morbidity, lifestyles, environment, health care, and maternal and child health. There are a variety of output formats from which to choose. (more)	Feb 26, 2003
	Hutton, Guy; Haller, Laurence	Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Water and Sanitation Improvements at the Global Level Report of a study on the estimated costs and benefits of improved water and sanitation services. Includes evaluation of health and economic benefits. Appendix sections include "WHO world sub-regions," "Detailed cost-benefit results under projected population growth until 2015," and "Detailed cost-benefit results under constant population size from year 2000 until 2015". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Apr 27, 2004
	Gillin, Edward	FAOSTAT: The Statistical Database of FAO This presentation was given at the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment: Foodborne Hazards, held in Adelphi, MD on July 24-26, 2002. It provides an overview of FAOSTAT, including data sources, data processing, database usage statistics, and examples of data queries and use. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002	Aug 16, 2002
	Binfield, Julian, et al.	FAPRI-Ireland 2002 EU Baseline Briefing Book Baseline agricultural projections for the EU. Includes discussion of policy assumptions, macroeconomic assumptions, world agricultural commodity prices, and EU projections for commodities. (more) Publication Month: May 2002	Jul 12, 2002
	Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	FAS Online FAS provides information and data about imports and exports, commodities, trade policy, buying US products, and more.	Jun 12, 2002

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