Guides: POLI 145 Politics of the Developing World: Home

Finding Data

UN Data This link opens in a new window
Search statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. View country profiles, or do a keyword search for the country, region, or indicator that interests you.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Browse by country to see data related to education & literacy, science, technology, & innovation, and culture.
UIS.STAT
From UNESCO Institute of Statistics. Create a chart featuring the indicators and countries that interest you. Choose a theme, then customize which indicators, countries, and time periods you'd like displayed.

World Bank Data This link opens in a new window
Access global development data from the World Bank. Browse by country or indicator, or build a chart using data you select. Click on Databank > World Development Indicators > then choose country, series (indicator), and time.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Find statistics on just about any topic, compiled from a wide variety of sources. Try doing a keyword search for a country and indicator that interests you.

Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles from social science disciplines, including Political Science. Contains recent issues of many top journal in the field (1990s-present).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly journals, mostly from humanities and social science disciplines. Contains older issues of many top journals in the field, but not recent issues (the last 3-5 years are generally not available).
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Find articles from both popular and scholarly populars. It covers virtually all academic areas of study.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles and other materials on topics related to gender.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
A collection of thousands of U.S. and global news sources.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
News, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. newspapers, magazines, and some journals. Coverage includes general news topics; foreign language news; company, industry, and market news; legal news; general health topics; accounting/tax info; government topics.
ProQuest U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
More than 350 newspapers, many with full-text. Coverage 1995 to present. The Major Newspapers collection includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more.
New York Times Digital Edition (1980 to present) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to New York Times. Requires account registration (see instructions).
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