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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Refworld is an extensive, searchable data base of United Nations, legal, treaty, and statistical information on refugees
Refworld also includes "Country" reports with descriptive text on the status of refugees by country as well as statistics
Information about the UNCHR and its publications, news releases, and documentaries

United States Committee for Refugees

World Audit

Ranks countries on overall democracy and on individual measures (political rights, civil liberties, press freedom, and corruption

World Bank

Catalog of publications and CD-ROMS
Many publications appear in its Digital Library
World Bank Journals includes the full text of the World Bank Research Observer since 1998 and the World Bank Economic Review since 1997

World Bank: Digital Library

World Bank: Economic Growth Research

Indexes articles, working papers, and corresponding data sets
Data must be downloaded to disk
Sample topics include military spending, inflation, educational attainment, finance

World Competitiveness Yearbook

Ranks 46 countries on 225 competitive factors
Factors include government, domestic economy, internationalization, finance, people
Web site provides summary ranking
A paper copy of Global Competitiveness Report is available in the Business Administration Library

World Culture Report

Statistical tables provide data for individual countries on cultural matters
Books and newspapers, radios and TV, leading musical artists (e.g. U2 in Ireland), language, three most frequent religions
Cultural sites visited, tourism, cellphones and personal computers, tourism
Income, human rights laws, social security
Also available in paper copy in the Documents Center as CB 430 .W78

World Development Indicators (UMich Only)

World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and environmental information for 226 countries
Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a given country
While focused on economics, the subject coverage is wide ranging.

World Development Reports

From the World Bank
Full text of annual report addressing international economic issues
Appendix of statistical tables provides country data with trends
Subjects include poverty, income distribution, population, Gross Domestic Product, foreign trade, finance, environment, education, and health
Classifies countries into developing, most developed, etc.
Adobe Acrobat format with tables and chapters segmented for easy viewing