ECONOMICS & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

 

INTRODUCTION

This page is intended to serve as a Gateway to Internet Resources in Economics & Development Studies for the academic staff, students and researchers at the Universiti Sains Malaysia.  All attempts have been made to ensure that quality sites are listed.  If you have comments and suggestions, please send them to Siti Roudhah Mohamad Saad at srms@notes.usm.my  .
Last updated Disember 2010.


REFERENCE

 

DICTIONARIES

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AmosWeb GLOSS*arama
http://www.amosweb.com/gls/
Developer:  AmosWorld
The AmosWEB GLOSS*arama is a searchable database of 2000 economic terms and concepts. GLOSS*arama entries range from A ("a" -- the vertical intercept of a straight line) to Z ("zoning" -- legal restrictions on the location of an activity).

 

DIRECTORIES

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Yahoo!: Business and Economy : Companies : Trade : Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Trade/Directories/
Developer: Yahoo! Inc.


 

 

SUSCRIBED ONLINE DATABASES / ELECTRONIC JOURNALS / ELECTRONIC BOOKS

 

DATABASES

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Global Market Information Database (GMID)

http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt?space=Login&control=RedirectHome

This database provides reports and statistics about Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), such as packaged food, beverages, toiletries, and tobacco. 

Euromonitor International is a global market research company specialising in industries, countries and consumers.

 

Datastream Advance 2.0

http://www.lib.usm.my/equip-usm/custom/datastream.jsp

Advance is a reporting and charting interface specifically designed for use with Datastream’s financial data service.  Advance’s easy-to-use interface lets user request over 100 standard Datastream reports, charts and data from Datastream’s financial database provides users with world stock market indices, fundamentals and economic data.

 

OSIRIS

https://osiris.bvdep.com/version-2010914/cgi/template.dll?product=20&user=ipaddress

Financial information on 62,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (48,000 are non-US companies).
The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings

 

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

http://www.scienceonline.org/

This full-text database contains articles, reports, news, books and other literature review which related to economics.

 

Emerald

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/index.htm

This full-text database contains articles, reports, news, books and other literature review which related to economics.

 

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

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Asia Pacific Journal of Management

http://www.springerlink.com/content/106589/

Covers on economics, management and business.

 

Construction Management and Economics

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713664979

Construction Management and Economics is the leading international refereed journal that publishes original research concerning the management and economics of building and civil engineering, while also including the management of built facilities. Construction Management and Economics has recently been recognised by the Australian Business Deans Council as an A* rated journal, signifying that it is amongst the best in its field.

 

International Social Science Journal

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2451

International in scope and authorship, the International Social Science Journal (ISSJ) bridges social science communities across disciplines and continents with a view to sharing information and debate with the widest possible audience. The ISSJ has a particular interest in policy-relevant questions and interdisciplinary approaches. It serves as a forum for review, reflection and discussion informed by the results of recent and ongoing research. The ISSJ was founded by UNESCO in 1949, is published in six language editions: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

 

Tourism Economics

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/tec

Tourism Economics, published quarterly, is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the economics and finance of tourism worldwide. Articles address the components of the tourism product (accommodation; restaurants; merchandizing; attractions; transport; entertainment; tourist activities); and the economic organization of tourism at micro and macro levels (market structure; role of public/private sectors; community interests; strategic planning; marketing; finance; economic development).

E-BOOKS

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Columbia University Press : economics

http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/

 

 

ADDITIONAL/SUGGESTED/RELATED LINKS

 

GATEWAYS/ VIRTUAL LIBRARIES

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BUBLLink : 330 Economics
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=2828
Developer : BUBL Information Service
An excellent site to start searching for economic resources on the Internet.

 

FINWEB

http://www.finweb.com/

Developer: James R. Garven

FINWEB is a financial economicsweb site managed by James R. Garven, Ph.D. The primary objective of FINWebis to list internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.

 

Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG)

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Developer:  Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol
SOSIG is an online catalogue of hundreds of high quality Internet resources relevant to social science education and research. Every resource has been selected and described by a librarian or subject specialist. Use the buttons at the top of each SOSIG page to search or browse the catalogue.

 

Yahoo! Social Science : Economics

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Economics/
Developer: Yahoo! Inc.
 

 

 

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

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Economic Institutes and Research Organizations on the Web

http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/institutes.htm
Developer: John Kane
Economic institutes and research organizations. The listing of economic institutes and research organizations provides a description of the work done by these organizations. Many of these sites contain data sources and information about current research projects.
 

 

 

 

 

ELECTRONICJOURNALS

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Economic Journals on the Net
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
Developer: Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
WebEc was an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW.

 

Yahoo! Social Science : Economics : Journals

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Economics/Journals/
Developer: Yahoo! Inc.

 

 

 

FULL-TEXT DOCUMENTS

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Economic Growth Resources                                                                                                                     http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/

Developer: Jonathan Temple, University of Bristol, United Kingdom 
These pages are designed as a resource for researchers studying economic growth, especially those new to the field. The website is maintained by Jonathan Temple and hosted by the University of Bristol.

MacMaster University Archive of the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
Developer: McMaster University
A virtual library of partial or complete works of people who have influenced economics.

A Pedestrain’s Guide to the Economy
http://www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl?s=pdg
Developer: Orley M. Amos, Jr., Oklahoma State University
As a handy reference source, it provides answers to many of the most asked, a few of the least asked, and some of the never asked questions about the economy.

Questia : The Online Library of Books and Journals

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp

Questia is the world's largest online library of books, with over 72,000 full-text books, 2 million articles, and an entire reference set complete with a dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus. Your subscription to the entire Questia academic library also includes digital productivity tools for highlighting text, taking notes, and generating footnotes and bibliographies in seven different styles.

Yahoo!Social Science : Economics : Papers
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Economics/Papers/
Developer: Yahoo! Inc.
 

 

 

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

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Federal, State, and Local Government Sites on the Web 
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/govsites.htm
Developer: John Kane
This provides links to an extensive list of U.S. federal and state government agencies. Information about current economic and social statistics, ongoing research, government publications, and data sources can be found at many of these sites. (CD-ROMS containing many large data sets can be purchased online from the GPO.)

 

 

 

MAILING LISTS AND NEWSGROUPS

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Newsgroups and Listserv Groups for Economists
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/usenet.htm
Developer: John Kane
These newsgroups can be used to find information on statistical packages, data sources, and related information.

 

 

 

ORGANISATIONS

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International Agencies on the WWW
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/international.htm
Develop: John Kane
Links to many international agencies can be used to locate information about current research, current international statistics, and online data sources.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

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Economic Associations on the Web
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/associations.htm
Developer: John Kane 
A growing number of economic associations are on the internet. Use these sites to find information about professional meetings, information about journals published by these associations, and links to other economics sites.
 

 

 

STATISTICAL DATA

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Data Sources
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/data.htm
Developer:  John Kane

A wide variety of links to online data sources are available. Choose this option to find links to data sites (listed by type of data).

 

Social Science Data Center and Geographic Information System Laboratory    

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/geostat/index.html                       

Developer: Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
University of Virginia lab has developed a forms interface for access to data from the Regional Economic Information System (REIS).

You can analyze data from the US or specific region, states, counties or MSAs or select variables from REIS income and employment

data and specify years to be displayed.

US Census Bureau : the Official Statistics
http://www.census.gov/
Developer: United States Department of Commerce
This site offers considerable information about the census Bureau, press releases, and links to other census sites on the Internet

through its Gopher.

 

 



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