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Internet
» http://www.icannwatch.org/ ICANN Watch: ICANN Watch reports
on decisions and events at ICANN (The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers). The policies and decisions of this
organization affect how the Internet is governed. The site offers
commentary and criticism from a wide variety of sources, guided
only by the belief in the power of ideas and informed discussion and
debate to shape events and institutions.
» http://www.law.miami.edu/ Michael Froomkin's Home Page: Mic-
hael Froomkin is a frequent contributor to ICANN Watch. Here you
will find additional articles and information on the Internet, the
economy and law topics.
Market-oriented
» http://www.msdw.com/gef/ Stephen Roach at Morgan Stanley:
Market-oriented articles on recent economic news.
Non-government organizations (NGOs)
» http://www.worldbank.org/research/growth World Bank Economic
Growth
: The research branch of the World Bank tries to pull together
the relevant information about economic growth. This area lists
recent research and project reports.
» http://www-wds.worldbank.org/
World
Development
Sources
:
World Development Sources (WDS) is a Web-based text search
and retrieval system which contains a collection of World Bank
reports most of which are scanned. Also included is the ASCII text
of the report generated from the image by OCR.
» http://www.imf.org/ International Monetary Fund: IMF maintains
an extensive list of reports for countries and regions on-line. Many of
the older papers are available for download in PDF format. Current
papers require payment.
» http://www.oecd.org/ OECD: Organization for Economic Co-opera-
tion and Development Publications and its statistics. Covers economic
and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, devel-
opment, and science and innovation.
» http://www.un.org/ United Nations: The United Nations sponsors
many programs for social, political, and economic development. The
reports of these and other activities are available at this site.
