A Guide to Economics Research

The IMF's Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) measure the soundness of financial institutions as a sector and the conditions of the counterpart corporate and household sectors. Indicators include regulatory capital to risk-weighted assets, nonperforming loans to total gross loans, return on assets, return on equity, interest margin to gross income, liquid assets to short-term liabilities, and net open position in foreign exchange to capital for all countries.

Economic information portal from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Provides over 75 key economic indicators for most countries; collected by national statistical agencies and central banks.

The indices provide exhaustive equity market coverage for over 70 countries in the Developed, Emerging and Frontier Markets, applying a consistent index construction and maintenance methodology

Official statistics from individual countries.

Include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the World Bank's compilation of data. Provides direct access to more than 800 development indicators for 208 countries with time series data from 1960 to the present.

This key World Bank publication offers recent statistics and narrative on topics relating to developing countries. Latest print version is at the Reference Desk HC 59 .W6; earlier years (back to 1978) in stacks at HC 59. W6.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.