Economic development in Latin America: Guide to online sources in English

Country information in English is available through the web site of the INCAE library system. Included are sources from the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), the World Bank, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (FMI), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA) and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Principal online sources in English for country information:

Americas (Economist Intelligence Unit) Red INCAE

Country Commercial Guides ( U.S. Department of Commerce) Red INCAE

CountryWatch  (CountryWatch, Inc.) Red INCAE

Economic and Social Progress in Latin America (Inter-American Development Bank)

Additional links to sources in English and many others in Spanish:

Central America

Latin America

World

International Competitiveness. For complete IMD (Institute for Management Development) and WEF (World Economic Forum) data, please ask at the circulation desk for the annual studies these organizations publish.

Books on countries can be identified through the online catalog Libros. There is an option that limits a search to books in English. The online Country Studies / Area Handbooks are especially useful.

09/2008