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The Gambia
Economic Development and Environment

• African Development Bank Group on The Gambia (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• The Atlas of the Gambia (Dr. Malanding Jaiteh, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University)
  Last update in September 2006: A website with basic geographical information, maps, some statistics, etc. "The Atlas of the Gambia project is a public education project aimed at providing authoritative data and statistics on biophysical, social, cultural and economic dimensions of life in the Gambia."
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on The Gambia (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: The Gambia (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Search for Gambia: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Gambia, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
  
  
• FAO Aquastat Programme -- Gambia, 2005 (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome)
  A profile of Gambian water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
  -- See also, Gambia in the FAO Document Repository
  
  
• Gambia Women's Finance Association, 1998 (Banjul, The Gambia; via Tripod.Com)
  GAWFA is (was?) a not-for-profit NGO established in 1987 to serve as 'a financial intermediary to enhance the entrepreneurship development of women'. The incomplete website offers general information about the association's credit schemes, contact, and a brief annual report for 1997/98.
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: The Gambia Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• Republic of The Gambia: Budget Speech 2005 -- via Office of The Gambian President: State House Online. (Banjul)
  
  
• Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in The Gambia. by Richard A. Schroeder. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1999).
  
  
• The United Nations Development Programme on The Gambia (New York)
  • The Gambia National Human Development Report 2000. -- Banjul, The Gambia: United Nations, March 2001. PDF format
  
  
  • Human Development Report Indicators for The Gambia: 2002 | 2003 | 2004
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: The Gambia Country Profile (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on The Gambia (Washington, DC)
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Gambia Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Gambia, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Gambia economy (2002) (International Trade Administration)
    
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Land Tenure Center Publications on The Gambia (Madison, Wisconsin)
  • "Tenure and natural resources in the Gambia...," by Mark Schoonmaker Freudenberger (August 2000) Working paper ; no. 40. (Abstract in HTML, full text in PDF)
  • "Land rights and intra-household employment and resource use in the peri-urban area of Banjul, The Gambia," by Michael Roth [et al.] (Jan. 1996) Research paper ; no. 126. (Abstract in HTML, full text in PDF)
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• The World Bank on The Gambia (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in The Gambia, 1999--
    A country brief and a profile of economic indicators; plus a searchable database.