The World Bank, the
International Monetary
Fund, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development all
have
well-organized websites with lots of excellent statistics and
information in
them. (The World Trade Organization’s site is puny and outdated.) The United Nations has many very
informative
websites on global economics. Check in particular:
·
The site for the Human Development Report
published annually by the UN
Development Program; offering full texts, statistical tables, and many
excellent statistical and mapping tools;
·
The
official site for the Millennium
Development Goals;
·
The UN's Integrated Regional Information
Network (IRIN),
which has in-depth news of social and economic affairs in many
low-income
countries; and
·
The
site for the UN-affiliated World
Institute for Development Economics Research.
Ken
Cook, Mulch.
Blog from the president of the Environmental Working Group, with much
data
about
Ann
Cullen, “How Europe
Wrote the Rules of
Global Finance; Q&A with Rawi E. Abdelal,” on
Thomas
Pogge, “World
Poverty and Human
Rights” (PDF), on site of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and
International Affairs.
Rami
Zurayk, Land
and People. Lively blog on “food,
farming and rural society” written by an agronomist at the