Searches citations and some full-text of economic research publications: includes journal articles; books, book chapters and book reviews; working papers; dissertations. 1969 - present.
An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), produced by the American Economic Association. Covers both economic theory and application.
The topical areas that NBER focuses on are: Aging, Asset Pricing, Children, Corporate Finance, Development of the American Economy, Economics of Education, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Environmental and Energy Economics, Health Care, Health, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade and Investment, Labor Studies, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, Political Economy, Productivity, Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign Currency/Asset Pricing, and Taxation/Public Economics/Government Spending.
Free data from the World Bank, including: World Development Indicators (WDI), Statistical Capacity Indicators, Education Statistics, Gender Statistics, and Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, and more. Annual data only, mostly 1960 - present.
World Development Indicators -- see -- World Bank DataBank
Search for a wide range of documents related to current events, public policy, and social sciences. 1972 to present.
Indexes books, pamphlets, and publications of the U.S. government and of international organizations, in addition to selected articles in 1400 periodicals.
Contains political science, public policy, and international relations scholarly journals; recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics; working papers; country reports (EIU); conference proceedings, policy papers and other sources. Dates of coverage: 1985 – present.
Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.
Country Rankings
There are many different bodies and institutions that create rankings of countries on many criteria. Below are some that either get mentioned regularly in the media, or are more likely to be useful to people in business.
You can find information about, and links to, many more rankings on Wikipedia's category page List of International Rankings.
Although this report does not really rank countries per se, nor does it cover all countries (only ~100), it still has a good discussion of perception of various types of white-collar crimes by executives around the world. (E.g. bribery and corruption, cybercrime, antitrust/competition law; procurement fraud, accounting fraud, and more.)
You'll have to download the report, or sections of it.
Measures the state of peace in 162 countries according to 23 indicators that gauge the absence of violence or the fear of violence. From the Institute for Economics & Peace.
Provides "a detailed analysis of the changing trends in terrorism across 162 countries, over the last 15 years. It investigates the patterns of terrorism by geographic activity, methods of attack, organizations involved and the national economic and political context." From the Institute for Economics & Peace.
Attempts to "assess where the greatest needs and opportunities for improving resilience to climate change exist." Looks at readiness for climate change, and vulnerability to it.
This relatively new NGO (founded in 1993) tries to measure levels of corruption in countries, and from both viewpoints: in which countries are you most likely to need to pay bribes; and from which countries are corporations most likely to be willing to pay bribes.
"measures the level of freedom of information in nearly 180 countries. It reflects the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations and netizens enjoy in each country, and the efforts made by the authorities to respect and ensure respect for this freedom."
It has five ratings: good situation, satisfactory situation, noticeable problems, difficult situation, and very serious situation.
Intergovernmental Organizations and Related Websites