International Studies

Political Economy and Development Studies

This guide showcases recommended resources for research, teaching and learning in International Studies.

Please note we have Economics Research Guides, as well as Business Research Guides that will provide very robust recommendations. There are also Data Research Guides.

Here are a few resources that include international data to get you started:

Council on Foreign Relations Global Trade Tracker
Bureau of Economic Analysis. BEA: Interactive data tables for national economic data, industry economic data, international economic data and regional economic data. Important note: Use option button to select historical data.
GDP-Bureau of Economic Analysis: Including International Trade and Investment Country Facts
ILOSTAT: Yearly data of Total and Economically active population, Employment, Unemployment, Hours of Work, Wages, Labour Cost, Consumer Price Indices, Occupational Injuries, Strikes and Lockouts: 1969-2005.
International Accounts Data (Bureau of Economic Analysis): Summary data on foreign investment in U.S. and U.S. investment abroad. Tables by country or by industrial sector. Frequency varies; quarterly or annual.
International Trade Guide

NetAdvantage
Public and private company and industry information including extensive financial data, S&P Industry Surveys, and Stock Reports. Covers most recent 5 years.

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EIU Viewpoint - Country Analysis Advanced (50 countries)
Understand a country’s political, policy and economic outlook with the world’s best forward-looking analysis and data. Unparalleled coverage—global, regional and country-level
analysis for over 200 markets. 20,000 data series every month, led by our worldwide network of expert analysts and on the ground contributors. Countries include:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Korea, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Cyprus, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain,Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Business Source Complete
Articles from peer reviewed journals and business periodicals, company reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, and cases.
EconLit
Abstracts and citations for economics-related literature provided by the American Economic Association. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) provides indexes of journals, books, and dissertations.
Nexis Uni
Thousands of U.S. and international news sources; legal materials: case law, statutes and law reviews; and company/business information.
Primarily 1990-present
GuideStar Premium
Information on the missions, finances, impacts, and governance of non-profit organizations.

Annual Review of Economics: Covers significant developments in the field of economics, including macroeconomics and economic development.
Definitions of Main Economics Indicators: From OECD
Economic Report of the President: 70+ agencies in the United States Federal Government produce public statistics. Annual historical statistical tables of government data from 1995 for national income or expenditure, population, employment, wages, and productivity, production and business activity. Spreadsheet format option. Link to FRASER with data back to first report 1947.
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary: IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.

MarketResearch.com
Reports from market research firms covering service industries, consumer goods, demographics, food and beverage, heavy industry, life science, public sector, and technology and media.
For academic use only.
OECD
Includes key OECD publications such as: Financial Market Trends, Higher Education Management and Policy, Nuclear Law Bulletin, OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Studies, OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Journal of Competition Law & Policy, and OECD Papers. Also includes books by theme, containing monographs and annual reports.
World DataBank Development Indicators
World Bank databases covering specialized world indicator topics such as social indicators, economic indicators, environmental indicators, state, market indicators, and international indicators along with statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. World Development Indicators coverage from 1960 for 228 countries and 18 groups of countries. Global Development Finance from 1970 for 128 countries.

Reminder: Scholars may produce a working paper as a precursor to publishing a scholarly journal article

Conference Board: Business Management and Economic Research and Insights: Includes current Economics Watch Report, forecasts including consumer spending and employment trends, corporate governance and executive compensation.
CEPR Discussion Papers (Centre for Economic Policy Research): Current discussion papers from the Centre for Policy Research. May be searched by paper number or general subject areas: International Macroeconomics, International Trade, Public Policy, Labour Economics, Industrial Organization, Transition Economics, Applied Macroeconomics, Human Resources.
International Monetary Fund: Free working papers full text with a searchable index. Many also indexed in EconLit.
NBER Working Papers: Current research of leading economists. Some working papers also available in print collection HB1.A2N37
The OECD iLibrary: Also has full text working papers and other publications from OECD.
Search RePEc(Research Papers in Economics) database.

ProQuest Statistical Insight Complete Collection
Index to local, national and international intergovernmental statistical publications from 1983 to the present. Includes citation information with large number of pdf or spreadsheet downloads available.
Statista
Statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies from media, business, finance, politics, and more.
Sage Data
Sage Data: Provides access to billions of statistical datasets across 16 topical areas, including Business, Education, Health, Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement, Government and Politics, and more. Results can be compared and viewed in customizable tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources. Sources include public, private/commercial, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Woods & Poole Economics, Inc. Powered by Data Planet.