LibGuides: Econ 3600:Developing Countries and the New Global Economy: Articles (Databases)

Economics Literature Databases

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EConLit This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
Coverage: 1969 to present

Google Scholar
Subjects: MANY
Description: General web search engine of scholarly literature. Google Scholar is a free search engine, so you must configure your Google Scholar Settings to access CalState LA materials off campus.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Books; Book Reviews; Conference Proceedings

CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Brings together in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for 192 countries worldwide.
Provides a news service covering political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
Updated continuously
Updated continuously

The World Bank Global Economic Data
The World Bank web site offers a wide variety of economic, health and population statistics from around the globe. It covers international trade statistics, economic development data and country information. It provides access to a variety of analytical tools and software (ADePT, PovCalNet, PovMap and iSimulate) for interpreting and presenting data.

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Library OneSearch
Subjects: MANY
Description: Easiest way to search most of the library's literature/articles holdings at once. Large multidisciplinary database containing scholarly and non scholarly articles, books, ebooks and more.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; Books; E-books

ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
ABI/Inform Global provides indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. You also get complete articles in full text for 600+ of the most popular and important sources.
International. Full-text retrospective from 1997 (with limited full-text appearing in 1994); abstracts retrospective from 1971.

Business Source Premier
Subjects: Business
Description: Research database from EBSCOhost containing full text.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; Company Reports; Industry Reports; SWOT Analysis; Country Reports

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Databases for Country Information

CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Brings together in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for 192 countries worldwide.
Provides a news service covering political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
Updated continuously
Updated continuously
Global Consumption Database This link opens in a new window
The Global Consumption Database is a one-stop source of data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. It is designed to serve a wide range of users—from researchers seeking data for analytical studies to businesses seeking a better understanding of the markets into which they are expanding or those they are already serving.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) This link opens in a new window
OECD offers a wide range of international trade, economic, fiscal, monetary and trade statistics. OECD publishes regular outlooks, annual overviews and comparative statistics
Population Index This link opens in a new window
World population and demographics from 1986-2000. All topics of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology and more.
The print version of Population Index, has been published by Princeton University since 1935. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
Statista Pro This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that provides statistics and data on over 1 million statistics and facts from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. The content is geared towards business and marketing statistical needs, with a focus on current statistics.
World Bank (The) This link opens in a new window
The World Bank web site offers a wide variety of economic, health and population statistics from around the globe. It covers international trade statistics, economic development data and country information.

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PsycINFO
Academic journals in psychology. Useful database for finding studies on the impact of communication styles, forms and technologies. Critical if you topic is related to occupational stress issues related to cognition.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Indexes with abstracts of journal articles, unpublished reports, and other documents in education and related topics.
ERIC is also available via Proquest, OCLC FirstSearch, and at ERIC website with access to full text documents from 1993-present. ERIC consists of two files:
- CIJE - Current Index to Journals in Education which indexes over 750 professional journals - all are assigned ERIC numbers beginning with an EJ (Eric journal).
- RIE - Resources in Education which indexes a variety of documents; all are assigned ERIC numbers beginning with an ED (Eric document). OCLC provides access to online full-text ED records via subscription links to EDRS Not all ED documents are available online. Inclusion depends on the authors original copyright agreement with EDRS. Typically 80% of ED documents permit online full-text usage. HINT: on OCLC look for the EDRS link at the bottom of the detailed record.
A variety of help options are available:
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Offers interdisciplinary content including approximately 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials.
On occasions, you may encounter problems opening PDFs. The reason for this to happen is most likely due to the time out error. This could be due to a slow internet connection or a large download size. Many times, articles with images contained in them will time out the download.
To resolve this, right click on the link "Proceed to PDF" and select "Save Target As..." (or "Save Link as..." for Firefox). This will allow you to save the PDF to your computer and should allow for a faster, more successful download.
If the problem persists, check the PDF Help Page at JSTOR

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Econ 3600:Developing Countries and the New Global Economy

Economics Literature Databases

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Databases for Country Information

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