AEA Resources for Economists on the Internet
Africa Live Database (World Bank) (statistics on Africa, excel presentation, free access)
Aggregated Trade Statistics (ITC) (free access)
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
Chinese Statistical Yearbooks (1981-current)
COMTRADE (UNSD) (Contains trade data (export import) of the defined commodities (SITC Rev.1, . HS2002) for almost every country in the world. Comtrade contains world trade data since 1962 until now, only accessible from MERIT)
Derwent Innovations Index (patent database and patent citation index; only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
DOAJ (article database: Directory of Open Access Journals, free access)
EBSCO A-Z (A to Z listing of the journals and newspapers available online via the UNU network)
EconLit (reference database, only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
Economist Intelligence Unit Web (general information and statistics, only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center reference database : only
accessible from UNU-MERIT)
EUROSTAT (European Union statistics: free access)
Global Development Finance Online (World Bank financial data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
IMF Balance of Payment Statistics (IMF financial data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
IMF Direction of Trade Statistics (IMF financial data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
IMF Government Finance Statistics (IMF financial data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
IMF International Financial Statistics (IMF financial data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
Institutional Profiles Database (set of indicators on the institutional characteristics of 123 developed and developing countries)
International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)
JSTOR (article database/archive: only accessible from UNU-MERIT )
LABORSTA (ILO labor statisticss, free access)
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online (UNSD) (information and statistics, only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
ProdCom: Statistics on the production of manufactured goods (Eurostat, public domain)
ScienceDirect (article database: Elsevier journals, only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
SCOPUS (citation index and abstract database: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
SourceOECD (full-text books, periodicals and statistics from the OECD, only accessible from UNU-MERIT) (old link)
UMI Proquest (article database, only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
UNCTAD FDI Database (investment statistics, free access)
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics (free access)
UNCTAD-TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) (trade statistics, free access)
UNESCO Statistical Yearbook Online (free access)
UNSTATS Databases (freely accessible data as well as data only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
World Bank Documents & Reports (WB full-text database including WB Technical Papers, WB Policy Research Papers, WB Discussion Papers, IFC Working Papers etc., free access)
World Bank e-Library (World Bank publications database: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
World Development Indicators Online (World Bank development data: only accessible from UNU-MERIT)
World Income Inequality Database (WIID) (data on income distribution, free access)
World Investment Report (UNCTAD) (free access)
WTO Documents Online (WTO documentation from 1995 onwards and updated daily, free access)