LibGuides: Economics: Web Megasites

Locate Organizations

EDIRC: Economics Departments, Institutes & Research Centers in the World
Look here for links to economics departments, research centers, and institutes in universities, as well as finance ministries, statistical offices, central banks, think tanks, and other non-profit institutions where mainly economists are working.

CA & San Diego Focus

CA Economic Data 'Quick Statistics"
This site offers frequently requested economic data for the state of California, including industry, labor, demographics, agriculture, and more.
Economic & Financial Research (CA Dept of Finance)
This gateway contains links to standard state data sources such as county profiles, economic indicators, the CA Statistical Abstract, the economic report of the Governor, Tax Expenditures, & Dynamic Revenue Analysis of CA. There are also links to the latest Economic Indicators, a history of the CA economy, & a chronology of signifcan economic events.
Interactive Mapping of SD's Industrial Clusters
Maps industry density and type by Standard Industrial Classification catagories.

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Maps industry density and type by Standard Industrial Classification catagories, such as: Visitor Ind Srvc; Business Srvc; Medical Srvc; Computer & Elec; Biotech & Pharm; Defense & Aircraft; Entertainment; Software & Comp Srvc; Communications; Financial Srvc; Recreational Goods; Biomedical Products; Horticulture / Ag; Environmental Tech; Fruit & Veg / Ag.
SD Workforce Partnership
Joint Powers council between the City and County of San Diego supporting the San Diego region's workforce through planning and administration for education, job training, and employment resources.
SD Economic Development Corp.
Private, non-profit organization funded by private sector investors, the City and County of San Diego, the San Diego Unified Port District, and several other cities in the region.
SC Centre City Development Corp.
Public, non-profit corporation to design and implement downtown redevelopment programs, including retail, residential, office, hotel, cultural, and educational projects.
City Heights Community Development Corp.
CHCDC serves residents in San Diego from 805 East to Euclid and El Cajon Blvd South to Home Ave and I 94. The organization's goal is to empower the community by establishing local community improvement partnerships.
http://www.cityheightscdc.org/

Collections from NGO Major Publishers

IMF eLibrary data
Includes data from International Financial Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, and Direction of Trade Statistics. Use the "Query Builder" to search for data.
OECD - Guide to the Resources
This guide highlights the textual and data resources in the OECD iLibrary collection in the subjects of economics, development, education, energy, environment, scitech and social issues.
OECD iLibrary (direct link)
United Nations (UCSD resource guide on International Government Information)
World Bank Documents & Reports
Online image and text archive of World Bank reports, working papers, and project documents. Free browser plug-in required for scanned image viewing. Includes PDF versions.

World Development Indicators
Macroeconomic, social, and environmental data from the World Bank, available as annual time series from 1960 onwards.

WTO Documents Online
Full-text database containing selected documents distributed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) since January 1994. Documents are browseable for the past 30 days, and searchable and downloadable as MS Word documents from 1994.

Major Free Sites

Business & Economic Data Links
This Twitter feed provides updates about links to economic and financial data sources of interest to economists and business statisticians. This page formerly was a project sponsored by the Business and Economics (B&E) Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Econometric Links (Econometrics Journal)
Economics Journal hosts a large listing of econometrics sites, including departments, national links, general pointers, preprints, software, code and data, books, conferences, journals, mailing lists, rankings, and statistics.
Labour & Business History
Information collected on this site is designed for labor and business historians, political and social scientists, economists and others with a historical interest.
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet
This site is a comprehensive WWW subject directory for economics, sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists over 1500 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
http://rfe.org/
Social Sciences Data on the Net
Search or browse among more than 1000 sites for data, originally selected and arranged by UCSD's Social Sciences Data Collection (SSDC). Listings include: large numeric data files, data libraries and data archives that have data available, searchable catalogs of data, and commercial distributors of data.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign Government Data Sources
This page features the major links to foreign government statistics sites and agencies.
VIBES: Virtual International Business & Economics Sources
This site holds 1500+ links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Subject, regional, and national sources included.
WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. It lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists.

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