Development Information from Government Sources Chuck Eckman Stanford University Libraries Available on the Internet: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/Jonsson/develop.html Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources Jonsson Library of Government Documents Guide to Government Publications Series CONTENTS Introduction Background Information Country Information Indexes and Abstracts Statistical Sources International World Regions National Development Aid Multilateral Bilateral Development Project Reports UNDP Project Reports FAO Project Reports Development Plans National Regions within Nations Central Banks Regional Organizations Internet Sites Special Collections About this Page INTRODUCTION This guide provides an introduction to basic information sources located in the Jonsson Library of Government Documents relating to the study of economic, social and political development in countries and regions throughout the world. In addition to the sources listed here, useful information can be found in several other Stanford libraries, including the Green Library, General Reference, Jackson Business Library, and Hoover Institute Library. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The following annual publications of major international organizations provide information on development trends at the global and regional levels. 1. Asian Development Outlook. Asian Development Bank, 1989- International HC411 A17 2. Economic and Social Progress in Latin America. Inter-American Bank for Development, 1972- International HG3881 I45 A3 3.Economic Report on Africa. African Development Bank; Economic Commission for Africa, 1984- IIS Microfiche 4. Human Development Report.Development Programme, 1990- International UNDP/Ser.Z/7/- (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 5. Industry & Development, Global Report. UN Industrial Development Organization, 1985- International ID/Ser.M/- 6. Trade & Development Report. UN Conference on Trade and Development, 1981- International UNCTAD/TDR/- (latest in Ref-Int'l Stats) 7. Trends in Developing Economies. World Bank, 1989- International HC59.69 T74 Also available on World Data cdrom 8. World Bank Annual Report. World Bank, 1973/74- International HG3881 I5 9. World Development Report. World Bank, 1978- International HC59.7 W658 (latest in Ref-Int'l Stats) 10. World Economic Outlook. International Monetary Fund, 1980- International HC10 W7979 (latest in Ref-Int'l Stats) COUNTRY INFORMATION 11. Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications, 1989- JN106 Z85 (latest in Reference) The best source for concise economic, social and political background information on individual countries. The following monographic series provide in-depth information on particular countries: 12. Area Handbook Series. US Dept. of the Army D 101.22:550- (various numbers) 13. World Bank Country Study. World Bank GREEN LIBRARY STACKS call no.varies Use "fin tp world bank country study and s [country name]" in Socrates to get call number for studies on a particular country. INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS 14. Africa Index: Selected Articles on Socio-Economic Development. Economic Commission for Africa, 1971- International E/ECA/LIB/Ser.E/- 15. AID's Development Information System (CD-DIS). U.S. Agency for International Development. 1984- CD-ROM accessible at workstation number 3 Index to AID-funded research studies, sector analyses, and special evaluations. Source documents are held at UC Davis. Request at Jonsson reference desk. 16. Asian Bibliography. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Library, 1952-- GREEN LIBRARY STACKS Z3008 E2 U5 (latest in Reference) 17. Congressional Masterfile. Congressional Information Service, 1789- CD-ROM accessible at workstation number 3 CD-ROM index to U.S. Congressional publications (committee hearings, reports, documents, etc.) 18. Industrial development abstracts. UN Industrial Development Organization, 1971- International UNIDO/LIB/Ser.B/- Index to UNIDO published and unpublished documents on industrialization in developing countries. 19. Index to United Nations Documents and Publications. NewsBank/Readex, 1945-1950, 1975- CD-ROM accessible at workstation number 2 Index to UN documents and publications. Provides access by subject, country name, document number, agency and personal name. Also serves as guide to the microfiche collection. Updated each month. 20. PAIS Decade Available via Folio. Online version of PAIS Bibliography. Includes latest 10 years of indexing. Covers books, journal articles, working papers on public policy, political science and economic topics in six languages. Covers commercial press, government documents and publications of non-governmental organizations. 21. UNBIS Plus (United Nations Bibliographic Information System). United Nations Library, 1979- CD-ROM accessible at workstation number 2 Comprehensive official index to UN documents and publications. Provides access by subject, country name, document number, agency and personal name. Includes full text of UN resolutions and voting records. Also includes an index of non-United Nations journal articles and monographs on a wide variety of international policy environment topics. Updated quarterly. STATISTICAL SOURCES International 22. Handbook of International Trade & Development Statistics. UN Conference on Trade and Development, 1967- International TD/STAT/- 23. Index to International Statistics. Congressional Information Service, 1983-- Reference (Int'l Stats) Index to the statistical publications of major international organizations and agencies. Most of the publications described are available in the corresponding microfiche collection in the Jonsson Library's reference stacks. Also available for electronic searching on Folio's cd-rom network as Statistical Masterfile. 24. World Debt Tables: External Debt of Developing Countries. World Bank, 1972-- International HJ8899 W672 (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) Also available on World Data cdrom. 25. World Development Indicators. World Bank, 1978-- International Unclassified (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) Diskette Unclassified 26. World Tables. World Bank, 1976-- International HC59 W67 (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) Also available on World Data cdrom. World Regions 27. African Development Report. African Development Bank, 1989- GREEN LIBRARY STACKS HC800 A1 A354 28. African Economic & Financial Data. World Bank, 1989. International Unclassified Diskette HC800 A5667 1990 29. African Statistical Yearbook. Economic Commission for Africa, 1974-- International E/ECA/Ser.Z/3/ (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 30. Survey of Economic & Social Conditions in Africa. Economic Commission for Africa, 1981/82-- International E/ECA/CM.14/- 31. Economic & Social Survey of Asia & the Pacific. Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1974-- International ST/ESCAP/2/- 32. Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries. Asian Development Bank, 1970-- HC411 A754a (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 33. Statistical Indicators for Asia & the Pacific. Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1977-- International ST/ESCAP/Ser.Z/4/- 34. Statistical Yearbook for Asia & the Pacific. Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1968-- International ST/ESCAP/24/- 35. Economic Survey of Latin America & the Caribbean. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1982-- International LC/G.1320/- (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 36. Panorama Economico de America Latina. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1985-- International LC/G.1369/- 37. Statistical Abstract of the Region of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 1970-- International E/ESCWA/87/27/- 38. Statistical Yearbook for Latin America & the Caribbean. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1985-- LC/G.1337/- (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 39. Statistical Abstract of Latin America. UCLA Latin American Center, 1955- HA935 S8 (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) 40. Economic Survey of Europe in... Economic Commission for Europe, 1953-- International E/ECE/Ser.Z/1/- National The Stanford Libraries collect statistical yearbooks from nearly all countries. The latest issue from each country is shelved in the Jonsson Library's reference collection. The call numbers for the yearbook for a particular country can be located in Socrates using the following search: "fin sp [country name]--statistics--periodicals" DEVELOPMENT AID Multilateral 41. Development Aid. Butterworth's, 1988. HG3881 D43 IGO Reference Useful directory to multilateral and bilateral aid sources worldwide. Annotations include description of each agency or government's objectives and methods with regard to foreign aid funding. 42. Development Co-operation: Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1972-- International HC60 O688 (latest in Ref--Int'l Stats) Statistical Annex Diskette HC59.8 O744 (Reference) 43. Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries: Disbursements, Commitments, Economic Indicators. OECD, 1960/64-- International HC60 O73d f 44. Register of Development Activities of the UN System. UN, 1987-- International ACCIS/Ser.Z/2/- (latest in IGO Reference) Annual publication that provides information on development support for countries and regions. Includes: types of activity; funding source; executing agencies; years of operation; and amounts. 45. U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants and Assistance from International Organizations. Agency for International Development, 1945/63-- S 18.2:0v2/- Bilateral Countries with significant foreign assistance plans generally publish annual reviews and other reports that document these flows. Foreign documents are generally found in the Green Stacks and the Hoover Institute Library. They are cataloged in Socrates. In order to locate them, use a subject approach as in the following examples: "fin sp economic assistance, british" "fin sp economic assistance, canadian--africa" "fin sp economic assistance, japanese--developing countries" DEVELOPMENT PROJECT REPORTS UNDP Project Reports Since 1966, the UNDP has funded a wide variety of projects worldwide in agriculture, education and literacy, political/administrative development, health care, urban planning, transportation, sanitation, manufacturing, and other areas. Reports on UNDP-funded projects--including progress reports and terminal or final reports--are sent to the UNDP library in New York. Several hundred are published each year. Each project is assigned a "project number" and any published reports are issued under this number. UC Berkeley has the complete set of reports published since 1981 on microfiche. The following two sources index the reports and can be used to request copies from the Berkeley collection at the Jonsson reference desk. 46. Compendium of Ongoing Projects as of... UNDP, 1983-- International UNDP/SER. A/ (latest in Reference) 47. United Nations Development Plan Index. Newsbank/Readex, 1981-- CD-ROM accessible at workstation number 2 This CD-ROM provides complete indexing to the microfiche collection of project reports available through direct loan arrangement with the UC Berkeley library. Searchable by subject, country, region, executing agency, and language. FAO Project Reports Reports on projects funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization are generally indexed in FAO-DOC Current Bibliography (shelved in the Gov Docs Reference-International Indexes section). The project reports are available within the FAO comprehensive microfiche collection at UC Davis. Stanford users can request documents from this collection at the Jonsson Library reference desk. DEVELOPMENT PLANS National The Stanford Libraries collect national development plans from nearly all countries. References to the latest published plans can be found in the following publication: 48. Guide to Official Publications of Foreign Countries. CIS, 1990. Z7164.G7 G83 1990 Reference In addition, the UC Berkeley Library receives national development plans worldwide as republished on microfiche. The citations for these plans can be found by searching the Melvyl catalog: "fin su [country name]--social policy and su [country name]--economic policy" Regions within Nations 49. Rural and Regional Development: Development Plans, Programmes, and Projects. IDC, 1995-. Microfiche 2160 This collection of over 700 documents includes a significant number of subnational development plans--both at the state or province and regional levels. The collection is uncataloged, but a guide is shelved as HT395.D44 R87 1996 in the Government Documents Reference collection. CENTRAL BANKS The Jackson Business Library collects central bank publications from all countries. In order to find these publications, verify the name of the nation's central bank by looking in the following directory. 50. State Economic Agencies of the World. Longmans HD87.25 G68 1985b Reference After identifying the name of the bank, use an organization phrase search in Socrates to identify relevant publications, as in the example: "fin op Bank of Japan" REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Regional organizations are often rich sources of information relevant to development issues. A few examples of such organizations include the African Development Bank, Central American Common Market, Inter- American Development Bank, Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, and the Economic Community of West African States. Information about these and other organizations, including their membership, organizational structure, activities, and publications, can be found in the Europa World Year Book. INTERNET SITES National Governmental Agencies The following is a list of selected national agencies interested in the field of development. A complete list of official foreign government web sites-including sites for the nation's ministries of foreign affairs, state, statistics, and finance--is available through the International Documents Task Force web site courtesy of Northwestern University's Government Publications Department at http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/idtf/foreign.html. Canadian International Development Agency http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/pages/index_e.htm Japan International Cooperation Agency http://www.jica.go.jp/Index.html United Kingdom Overseas Development Administration http://www.oneworld.org/oda/ United States Agency for International Development http://www.info.usaid.gov/ International Governmental Organizations The following is a list of selected IGO's interested in the field of development. A complete list of igo web sites is available through the International Documents Task Force web site courtesy of Northwestern University's Government Publications Department at http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/idtf/igo.html. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development http://www.oecd.org United Nations http://www.un.org United Nations Development Programme http://www.undp.org United Nations Conference on Trade and Development http://www.unicc.org/unctad/ United Nations Industrial Development Organization http://www.unido.org/ Asian Development Bank http://www.asiandevbank.org European Bank for Reconstruction and Development http://www.ebrd.com Inter American Development Bank http://www.iadb.org Additional useful sites International Development Research Centre http://www.idrc.ca/index_e.html Development Information from Government Sources 51. Documents on Education Development. IDC, 1995-. Microfiche 2269 Over 600 development projects, research reports, conference papers, statistical reports, etc. on the development of education in the Third World, based on the bibliographies by Diana Clayton. Many of these publications concern locally produced material regarded as grey literature and are very difficult to collect. The collection is uncataloged, but a guide is shelved as LC6205 D63 1996 in the Government Documents Reference collection. ABOUT THIS PAGE This page (http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/Jonsson/develop.html) was created and is maintained by Chuck Eckman. Please send comments about its content to: Chuck Eckman Green Library, McDermott Suite Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305- 6004 Phone: (415) 723- 2982 E-Mail: ceckman@sulmail.stanford.edu last modified April 30, 1997