Library Research Guides: ECON 220: Development Economics: Find Background and Context

Country Profiles

CIA World Factbook
Detailed profiles of all of the countries of the world, including history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary research tool that allows you to search over 300 reference works simultaneously, including limiting to audio or visual materials.
Sage Knowledge Online This link opens in a new window
Search across more than 100 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works.

Trade and Development

Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present by Cynthia Clark Northrup; Jerry H. Bentley; Patrick Manning; Kenneth Pomeranz; Steven Topik; Alfred E. Eckes, Jr
Call Number: Electronic Resource
ISBN: 0765680580
Publication Date: 2004-12-31
Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade.
Encyclopedia of International Development by Tim Forsyth (Editor)
Call Number: USE IN LIBRARY, HD82 .E547 2005, Clapp Ref
ISBN: 041525342X
Publication Date: 2004-12-16
International development is now a major global activity and the focus of the rapidly growing academic discipline of development studies. The Encyclopedia of International Development provides definitions and discussions of the key concepts, controversies and actors associated with international development for a readership of development workers, teachers and students. With 600 entries, ranging in length from shorter factual studies to more in-depth essays, a comprehensive system of cross references and a full index, it is the most definitive guide to international development yet published.
The World Bank Group a to Z by World Bank Group
Call Number: Electronic Resource
ISBN: 9781464803833
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. With more than 280 entries arranged in encyclopedic A-to-Z format, readers can easily find up-to-date information about the five agencies of the World Bank Group and the wide range of areas in which they work: from agriculture, education, energy, health, social protection, and labor to gender, jobs, conflict, private sector development, trade, water, and climate change.

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Geography 2050 videos
The once bountiful and pristine oceans have been degraded through massive, multi-faceted, and complex activities. These sessions will explore the human-induced ecological burden on oceans, and what can be done to reduce the most harmful actions. Maritime shipping carries 90 percent of world trade, yet there are emissions and spills that result from this vital activity. Other harmful impacts to consider include: IUU fishing, global ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea ice loss, sea level rise, mangrove destruction, coral reef loss, ocean plastics, noise pollution, and invasive species.

Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies are research guides in a variety of subject areas. Combining features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource directs researchers to top scholarship across a wide variety of topics.