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more useful under some circumstances. The site is very well organized: General
Information/Regions/Countries. Within each subheading are the same subject
headings, from "political organizations" to "law" to "companies" to "telecom" and
much more in between. Obviously, much more information is indexed about some
countries than others and not every heading has an entry for each country.
BUBL Country List
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/world/index.html
Carefully researched and annotated web directory by information professionals.
WWW Virtual Library Regional Studies
http://vlib.org/Regional
Links to African, Asian, Indigenous, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Russian,
Eastern European, Western European, and Pacific studies. The Virtual Library was
established in 1993 and is still kept up to date.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has
launched webpages for each member country. The main features for each country
website are:
).> What's new: News, recent and forthcoming events or conferences, latest
publications.
).> Statistics: OECD statistical profile, OECD free access databases by country,
and more.
).> Country and the OECD: ratification of the convention, role and activities of the
delegation, financial contribution to the budget, etc.
).> Publications & documents: documentation listed in chronological order, by
topic or document categories.
).> Information by topic: every topic from the ageing society to transportation.
).> Don't Miss: Country profile including over 100 indicators, how to obtain OECD
publications, list of translations, useful links and contact us.
What countries are included in the OECD project? All thirty member nations have
country webpages and most of those country's also have a separate statistical
profile page. OECD also has active relationships with 70 non-member countries. The
OECD site includes numerous publications and documents, such as an Economic
Survey of Russia (July 2004), Main Economic Indicators: Non-Member Countries,
April 2005 (PDF), as well as information about co-operation operation between
GECD member and non-member nations by country. The OECD site also permits
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