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"AFRISTAT is an international organisation created by a Treaty signed in Abidjan on 21 September 1993 by the following 14 African members of the Franc Zone: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Chad and Togo. In April 1998 Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau joined Afristat, followed by Guinea, Cape Verde and Burundi respectively in September 2000, September 2002 and April 2006. In total Afristat comprises 19 Member states. Under the terms of Article 5 of the Treaty of Abidjan, any sub-Saharan country and any Indian Ocean country can apply to join Afristat. "The Tuck Trade Agreements Database contains the most comprehensive collection of texts of bilateral and regional free trade agreements available on a single online site as well as the only database of free trade and customs union agreements text-searchable by provision or keyword. Available online: LABORSTA Main ILO database on labour statistics covering household incomes and expendture statistics,economically active population (data since 1945), employment, unemployment, employment by sex for detailed occupational groups (1970-2000), public sector employment, statistical sources and methods, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969). It is the main ILO statistical database and has statistics published in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, the October Inquiry and the Bulletin of Labour Statistics. It also includes estimates and projections of the economically active population.
SICE - the Organization of American State's Foreign Trade Information System - centralizes information on trade policy in the Americas. On the SICE Website, you will find the full texts of trade agreements in force for OAS Member States, new and ongoing trade policy developments, information on national trade-related legislation, links to international, regional and national sources of trade policy information and more! SICE, with more than ten years online, strives to provide OAS member states and other users up-to-date and relevant information. The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Manuals, guides, and other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member countries, and of the statistical community at large are also available. List of topics: The following databases are available online:
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Comprehensive tariff data: Provides a database of trade agreements as well as interactive trade indicators (import / export shares and values, trade shares and trade intensity) for countries of the Asia-Pacific region. "What is Eurostat and what does it do? Key products: Data Resources:
Data available online: "This page provides links to a wide range of bilateral and regional trade agreements. It includes all agreements notified to the WTO as of January 2009, along with the official WTO document number of the notification. While we have not, as yet, compiled every bilateral and regional trade agreement signed over the past few decades, we believe we have put together a fairly comprehensive database that will be of use to trade lawyers and academics." "This blog is used by staff at the United Nations Economic Commision for Europe in order to share and pool research information on Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). The principal focus is RTAs in Southeast Europe, the CIS and Central Asia, with a secondary focus on RTAs in Western and Central Europe and North America. For comparison purposes, we may also post information about RTAs in other parts of the world."
The Reports on International Organizations (RIO) is a publication of the International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). Visit the RIO website The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) collects information on a large number of aspects of armed violence since 1946. Since the 1970s, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) has recorded ongoing violent conflicts. This effort continues to the present day, now coupled with the collection of information on an ever broadening scope of aspects pertaining to organised violence, such as the resolution and dynamics of conflict. The UCDP data is one of the most accurate and well-used data-sources on global armed conflicts and its definition of armed conflict is becoming a standard in how conflicts are systematically defined and studied. |
