Blogs

Pharyngula

Paul Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota, Morris, puts his top rank down to "tapping into the broader areas of liberal politics and atheism" and a rich vein of "resentment against the reactionary religious nature of American culture".

Databases 

LABORSTA
This dynamic application on Internet allows user to access data and metadata from the International Labor Organization Bureau of Statistics for over 200 countries.
Data 
- Yearly statistics (mainly time-series) which serve to publish the ILO Yearbook of Labor Statistics. The application presents data covering 9 subjects in 31 tables 
- Periodical statistics (time-series) which serve to publish the ILO Bulletin of Labor Statistics. The application presents data covering 5 subjects in 10 tables 
- October Inquiry statistics (time-series) which serve to publish the ILO October Inquiry. The application presents data covering 2 subjects in 2 tables 
- Segregat - Employment for detailed occupational groups by sex (time-series) 
ILO-Comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates, adjusted averages (time-series) 
Public Sector Employment (time-series) 
- Economically Active Population Estimates and Projections data (time-series) 
- Household Income and Expenditure Statistics (time-series) 
Metadata
- Sources and Methods, Labor Statistics: methodological descriptions of national statistics by source 
- International classifications. Description of the Bureau of Statistics' topics. 

Databases 

UNCTAD
UNCTAD compiles statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI).  The FDI database presents aggregate inflows, outflows, inward stocks and outward stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 196 reporting economies in an interactive format.

International Trade and Climate Change
Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives
Climate change remains a global challenge requiring international collaborative action. Another area where countries have successfully committed to a long-term multilateral resolution is the liberalization of international trade. Integration into the world economy has proven a powerful means for countries to promote economic growth, development, and poverty reduction. The broad objectives of the betterment of current and future human welfare are shared by both global trade and climate regimes. Yet both climate and trade agendas have evolved largely independently through the years, despite their mutually supporting objectives. Since global emission goals and global trade objectives are shared policy objectives of most countries, and nearly all of the World Bank's clients, it makes sense to consider the two sets of objectives together. 

Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption 

This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption.Click here to read more 

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Quality Systems and Standards for a Competitive Edge 
Quality systems and standards have a significant impact on market access, export growth, productivity, industrial upgrading, diffusion of innovation, and other central ingredients for reducing poverty and enhancing country competitiveness. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation and blueprint for implementing quality systems for private sector development and trade and competition initiatives. By thoroughly analyzing the diversity of institutions, linkages, and arrangements involved in quality systems and by identifying success factors in country quality strategies, this book provides a clear methodology on how to implement effective demand-driven national quality systems. It describes the necessary institutions and jurisdictions, the structure of required services and appropriate programs, the procedures and processes to be followed, the financing requirements and responsibilities, the incentive structure, and the relative roles of the public and private sector. With rich examples and case studies drawing best practices and lessons from around the world, this book will be invaluable to policy makers and development, trade, and competitiveness practitioners confronted with the challenge of building trade competitiveness in the new global economy. 

e-Books from the World Bank e-Library

The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs

The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries at the close of World War II gained force during the next decade. From the 1950s to the 1970s, scholars and advocacy groups publicized the trend and drew troubling conclusions about its economic and ecological implications. Private educational and philanthropic organizations, government, and international organizations joined in the struggle to reduce fertility. Three decades later this movement has seen changes beyond anyone's most optimistic dreams, and global demographic stabilization is expected in this century.

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Working Papers

The Global Challenges of the Knowledge Economy: China and the EU 
C. Huang & L Soete, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 
National Systems of Innovations and the Role of Demand. 

e-Journals - Latest addition in CEEOL

Bulgarian Ethnology 
Subject: Anthropology , frequency: quarterly

Publisher:  Ethnographic Institut and Museum - BAS

Selected Internet Resources

National Network of Virtual Libraries

List of virtual libraries. In Bulgarian.

Selected Internet Resources

IPSAportal -Top 300 web sites for Political Science

IPSAportal is the portal of the International Political Science Association and an official online IPSA publication.  Hundreds of useful, rich and qualitatively outstanding web sites for political science are selected, rewieved and  evaluated by IPSA in order to provide scholars and students of the discipline worldwide an useful tool for online research. Among others, crucial information about the nature, quantity and retrievability of the content, the easiness of access and use and the fee policy of each site are provided.