TRADING SPACES SEMINAR

Reference Books

• Demographic yearbook / United Nations. Statistical office. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Location: Haggard 2 Reference HA17.D45
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  This is a United Nations resource that is published annually with most recent volume for 1998. This resource is bilingual (English and French) and has statistical data on all countries including population by age, sex, urban/rural etc., birth rates, fetal, infant, maternal and general mortality rates, and marriage and divorce rates.
   
• Encyclopedia of International Development
  Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD82.E547 2005

• Endangered peoples of Latin America : struggles to survive and thrive
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E65 .E57 2001
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• Endangered peoples of Oceania : struggles to survive and thrive
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN662 .E53 2001
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• Endangered peoples of Southeast and East Asia : struggles to survive and thrive
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN635.S58 E5 2000
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• Endangered peoples of the Arctic : struggles to survive and thrive
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN673 .E72 2000
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• Environmental policies in the third world : a comparative analysis / Dwivedi, O. P.
  • Location: Haggard 3 HC59.72.E5 E623 1995
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  Analyzes environmental problems and policies in developing countries around the world and discusses new prospects for international cooperation and funding.

• The Europa world year book
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference JN1 .E85
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  This resource has detailed entries on all countries, including history, economic affairs, social welfare, government, education and statistical information on population, economics and trade. The entries also identify churches, religious organizations, newspapers and periodicals for each country.
  
   
• FAO statistical yearbook
  Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD1421 .F363  2004 v. 1 no. 1, no. 2

• The Middle East and North Africa
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference DS49 .M5
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• New slavery : a reference handbook / Bales, Kevin.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HT867 .B37 2000
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• State of the world : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society / Worldwatch Institute
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HC59 .S734
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  This annual publication contains a wide variety of scholarly essays on topics relating to the progress of developing countries. The focus is on environmental issues, population growth, hunger, and poverty.

• The State of the world's refugees, 2000 : fifty years of humanitarian action
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV640 .S677 2000
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  This is a U.N. publication that reviews the refugee policies and histories over the past fifty years and discusses several specific recent refugee crises such as the Balkans and Rwanda.

• Statistical handbook on poverty in the developing world / Kaul, Chandrika.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HC59.72.P6 S73 1999
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  This volume provides researchers with detailed information regarding the worldwide and regional impact of poverty in the developing world. It also looks at and on individual countries. Data is drawn from authoritative sources including the World Bank and the UN Human Development Report. The Handbook includes statistics on economic indicators, demographic patterns, income distribution, and other factors that impact poverty in the world today. Two special sections focus on women and children and on poverty in selected cities worldwide.

• World Development Indicators / World Bank
  • Location: Reference HC59.15 .W656
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  Published by the World Bank, this source provides a statistical survey of world development. Data is grouped under 6 major headings: world view; people; environment; economy; states & markets; and global links. Over 500 time-series indicators covering the years from 1960-1998 are included, as well as single year data and an atlas. The Library Catalog record links to the World Bank site for selected statistics for the current year, and mid-year updates.

• The world guide
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HC59.69 .G843
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  This guide covers all countries, giving information on health, labor, education, land use, literacy, economy, materal mortality, military expenditure. There is also an overview section with essays on such topics as biodiversity, women, indigenous people, health, education, child labor, development, globalization, refugees etc.

• World resources : a report by the World Resources Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HC10 .W827
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  This source focuses on ecosystems around the world with some information on people and ecosystems in specific regions.

• Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations / Worldmark Press
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference G63 .W67 2001
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Periodical Literature: Indexes and Databases

• Ethnic Newswatch

• JSTOR
  JSTOR provides searchable full-text access to backfiles of core scholarly journals in many fields including African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. There is a gap, usually from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.

• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HB1.A1 P822
  • Dates covered: 1972-current
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  Online, PAIS contains over 400,000 citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Includes the PAIS Bulletin (1976-90), PAIS Foreign Language Index (1972-90), PAIS International In Print (1991-), and Directory of Periodicals/Publishers (1990), also in print in the library,with coverage back to 1915.

• POPLINE (Population Index) / Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project
  • Dates covered: 1970-current
  POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. Primarily English language articles but international in scope; publications from 1970 to the present with selected citations dating back to 1886.

• ProQuest 5000 International (Including all ProQuest Databases)
  • Dates covered: 1970-current
  ProQuest accesses databases covering a wide range of subject areas and disciplines using a common search interface. All available databases can be searched simultaneously, or a specific database may be selected. The ProQuest databases are: ABI/Inform Global, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Newspapers, and ProQuest Research Library. Additional information about each database is available under its individual listing.

• Sociological Abstracts
  • Location: HM1 .S67 (Wilson 1 East)
  • Dates covered: 1963-current
  Provides indexing with abstracts of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines. Available in print and online. Online includes Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning, Policy, and Development Abstracts (SOPODA).

Websites

• American FactFinder

     The Census Bureau's main site for providing information on the 2000 Census.  A place to      
      find statistics on ethnic groups in the United States, among other subjects.

• FAOSTAT      (Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.)
   

• FAO Statistics Division Food and Agriculture Atlas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

• Human Rights Watch World Report
   
• International Fair Trade Association

• Third World Studies
  A subject guide to selected resources for Third World studies that are available in Western Libraries.

• World Bank
  This World Bank site provides gender statistics and other data by country.

• World Factbook
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference G122.U56a
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  Provides brief, but useful, data collected by the CIA from primary resources on geography, population, government, economy, communications, and defense forces of over 247 countries, dependencies or geographical areas of the world.