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African Economic Research Consortium
The Consortium supports locally based researchers to conduct policy-relevant economic inquiry. The website hosts available research articles in the areas of poverty, income distribution and labour market issues; as well as articles on how the policies of the World Bank-IMF-WTO combine will affect African nations.
 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Centre specialises in the production of research reports, opinion pieces, fact-sheets and other publications that offer an alternative viewpoint to social and economic justice issues from a Canadian point of view, and sometimes from a global perspective.
 
CorpWatch
CorpWatch works to support anti-corporate globalization movements around the world. It provides information on transnational corporations to movements opposed to the forces of globalization. It also educates and mobilizes key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns against globalization worldwide.
 
Corporate Watch
The site believes in blowing the whistle on corporate misdeeds and cover-ups. A voice of the anti-corporate globalisation movements, there are sections on news, profiles, features, new research and campaigns. Those interested in keeping watch on corporations in India can visit www.corpwatchindia.org
www.corporatewatch.org.uk
 
ECLAC
ECLAC is one of the five regional commissions of the UN. It is committed to a greater integration of Latin American and Caribbean economies with world markets but advocates a stable system of international governance for managing capital flows. The website is a good place to look for secondary data on economic and social trends in the region.
www.eclac.org
 
EURODAD
A network of NGOs spread over sixteen European countries, which actively campaigns for the incorporation of poverty considerations in debt reduction policies such as the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, to achieve " sustainable" levels of debt. The website hosts worldwide debt data, debt updates, debt projections as well as critical analyses on debt-related issues. 
 
Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a group of scholar-activists committed to the generation of ideas and information resources contextualising local movements of change in the Asia-Pacific region within the global North/South divide. The website has terrific resources on anti-globalization initiatives in the region.
 
International Trade Center
This website is jointly maintained by WTO and UNCTAD and provides wide ranging trade related data on product and country basis. It also provides data on Trade Performance Index (TPI) which shows sectoral export performance and competitiveness of countries. Data on trade simulation are also available for some countries.
 
OECD
The official website of the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development. The website's statistics portal is a good place to surf for data on key economic variables at different levels of aggregation.
 
IDEAs
IDEAs or International Development Economics Associates is a pluralist network of progressive economists across the world. It seeks to undertake and promote a range of activities including research, teaching, dissemination and application of critical analyses of economic policy and development. IDEAs is motivated by the need to strengthen and develop alternatives to the current mainstream economic paradigm as formulated by the neo-liberal orthodoxy, which has failed to achieve sustainable, equitable and participatory growth.
 
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues.
 
UNCTAD Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS) Database
This database, maintained by UNCTAD, provides Trade Control Measures (Tariff, para-tariff and Non-Tariff Measures) information at tariff line level for 119 countries. It also covers imports by suppliers at 6-digit level of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) covering more than 85% of the world trade. This database is one of the most comprehensive database on Non-Tariff Measures currently available.
www.unctad.org/trains
 
UNRISD
The official website of the United Nations Institute for Social Development, an autonomous UN agency engaged in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of economic development. Available on the website are quality research papers on issues of pressing importance to development economists such as the links between racism and public policy.
 
         
         
 
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