World Bank's Definition of an NGO
NGO Cafe.
From WWW Virtual Library, describes NGOs and contains lots of advice and strategies for planning, running, and growing an NGO.- Duke's Partial List of NGOs and their lists by Issues, Geography, and IGO Affiliation.
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Associations
Unlimited
Comprehensive directory of organizations around the world, includes some 23,000 international organizations of all kinds. Suggested: choose "Subject/ Any Word Search", and search by your topic while limited to "international" (at the top) and use one of the subject limits (such as "Social Welfare")."
Directories and background.
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Historical Dictionary of Arab and Islamic Organizations [Ref DS36.55 .C57 2001]
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Historical Dictionary of Refugee and Disaster Relief Organizations [Ref HV640 .G66 2000]
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Historical Dictionary of International Organizations [Ref JZ4838 .S34 1998]
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Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations [Ref JC571 .G655 1997]
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Directory of International Economic Organizations [Ref HF1418.5 .S37 1997]
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Directory of International Organizations [Ref JX1995 .S36313 1996]
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Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa [Ref JX1995 .D375 1994]
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World Directory of Environmental Organizations. [Sciences Ref S 920 .W67]
See also the guide to World
Development, which lists more sources of world statistics.
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World Development Indicators
[also, free data last five years]
Best, most comprehensive source for current and recent statistical data on the world's
nations. It includes data on more than 500 topics (indicators) about the
people, economy, environment, and public finance of 210 nations. The Online
version contains time series from 1960 to the present, and data may be
exported in a variety of formats (inc. Excel, dbase, and SAS), as well
as mapped and charted.
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UNSTATS: UN Statistics Division Common Database
Huge compilation of socioeconomic statistics for the countries of the world. Hundreds of data series for the world's nations. Some data back to 1946. Includes source notes, ability to download to a comma separated file.
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Economist Intelligence
Unit (EIU) Country Intelligence
EIU Profiles and Reports provide timely analysis and forecasts of the political,
economic, social, and business environment in a total of 126 reports about
more than 180 countries. They present the political and economic structure
of the country, the current political scene, economic policy, domestic
economy (covering industry, agriculture, money and finance), foreign trade
and payments, and the outlook for the future. Country reports are archived
online (web) from 1996 forward.
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Statistical Abstract of the United States.
[Comparative International Statistics chapter. Ref Desk HA 202 U6]
Includes basic economic and finance statistics for nations worldwide.
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Statistical Yearbook. (UN) [Ref Desk HA 12.5 U5]
Volume contains mostly economic statistics, including tables for national
accounts/fiscal data, labor and wages, trade, finance, balance of payments,
and production in many industries.
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UN
InfoNation.
Simple interactive application includes several major economic statistics
and three largest industries for nations.
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UN Demographic, Social, and Housing Statistics.
Recent data for the nations of the world of a number of indicators of socioeconomic welfare. Less than UNSTATS above, but this is freely available.
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World Bank Data by Country.
Compiles country statistics on a number of topics, from general economic and social indicators to specific reports on education and gender.
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IMF Country Information.
These International Monetary Fund reports provide detailed data on a nation's
economy; often the last five years are covered.
- LABORSTA and
Yearbook of Labour Statistics (ILO). [Ref HD 4826 I5]
By country, detail on occupations, employment/unemployment, hours, wages,
and prices. LABORSTA has global time-series data related to labor.
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UNCTAD Commodity Yearbook. [Ref HF 1040 Y45]
Statistics and rankings on country production, consumption, and trade in
natural resources.
Includes both popular (material usually written by professional writers and journalists) and scholarly (research articles written by researchers such as your professors). Leads to articles, books, websites, etc.
- Expanded
Academic ASAP
UC System's general purpose article database. Many popular magazines, many core scholarly journals. All topics
- Sociological Abstracts . Standard index to scholarly research in sociology, which includes most world social issues.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Scholarly research in policy and political science.
- Historical Abstracts Scholarly research in world history.
- America:
History and Life Scholarly research in US history and culture.
- See also more specific subject databases, such as those in:
Women's Studies,
Environmental Sciences,
Black Studies,
Global and International Studies,
Latin American Studies,
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
- Foundation Directory [Reference Index Table AS911.A2 F65]
Lists grant-giving foundations. Includes indexes by subject matter, so find foundations by the subjects they may support.
- Foundation Grants Index [Ref AS940 .F68 (CD-ROM)]
Lists actual grant recipients by type, source, and subject.
- Grants.gov and Federal Assistance Award Data System
Directories of federal grant opportunities, and federal grants awarded.
Can be either scholarly research or popular/journalistic. Scholarly books also identified via Scholarly sources above. These catalogs are largely used by finding known items. Google Book Search aims to search the full content of books.
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Pegasus
Find books and other materials in the UCSB Libraries.
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Melvyl
Find books in all UC libraries.
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