Selected websites, general economics

The Big Mac Index (regular updates from the Economist).

The Adam Smith Institute provides full text online publications relating to government and taxation; economics and society; health, education and social issues; transport and environment and privatization and deregulation. Also available in full text are the complete works of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, with indexes to the chapters.

Asia Regional Integration Center provides current information on the Asian economies.

Australian Policy Online is maintained by the Social Research Institute of Swinburne University. An excellent site on current economic, social issues, and current and forthcoming conferences.

The Cato Journal is published by the Cato Institute, a public policy research foundation in Washington, D.C. The journal is an interdisciplinary publication in the analysis of public policy issues.

Economic journals on the web.

Fed in Print: An index to Federal Reserve Economic Research is searchable by keywords, authors, titles, publication year and name. Many of the documents are in full text.

Global economic prospects: World Bank annual.

Grameen, banking for the poor. The Grameen Bank started in Bangladesh by giving small loans to the poorest in the rural areas. The site provides information about the bank's activities.

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy is based in the University of Nottingham (England). It's research focus is theory and methods of globalisation and labour markets, China and the world economy and globalisation, productivity and technology.

The National Academies Press (NAP) online catalogue provides full text access to more than 3700 books, titles are available by subject categories The site also allows search facilities for contents in the book and links to specific chapters.

Performance of manufacturing index is a monthly report on the status of manufacturing in Australia.

Performance of service index is a monthly report on the status of service industries in Australia published by the Australian Industry Group.

Yale Global Online is a publication from the Yale Center of Globalization. Information is arranged by topics and regions.

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