Selected Websites - Intergovernmental Organizations

Asian Development Bank

A development finance institution with 56 member states, 40 in Asia and 16, including the U.S., from elsewhere. This site includes news releases, project profiles and a list of publications.

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC)

Europa Home Page

This is the official home page of the European Union. It includes links to background information on the EU, sources of publications and statistics, and member governments' home pages.

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Intergovernmental Organizations Publications

This is a gateway to the ready reference sources of IGOs such as the European Bank for Recontruction & Development, the IMF, etc.

International Labor Organization

In English, French, or Spanish, this resource includes relevant conferences, documents, and press releases. Links to documents of interest include   The Social Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis.

International Monetary Fund

This site, which provides search and browse capability of the entire IMF Publications Catalog, includes IMF working papers in PDF, the text of press releases, and other information.

 International Organizations

Alphabetical list of IGO websites from Northwestern University Library, including links to press releases and publications.

International Standardization Organization

Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)

This is the official home page of ALADI. It includes statistics and reports on the national tariffs of member countries, as well as data on import and export statistics of member countries, total foreign trade and main products exported.

Mercosur

OECD Online

This is the home page of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, whose members are the "26 free-market democracies of North America, Western Europe and the Pacific. The OECD is the world's largest source of comparative data on the industrial economies."

Organization of American States - Trade Unit

Includes data, trade agreements, investment treaties and links to official sources of trade and investment information.

United Nations

This the is official United Nations home page. It contains links to many other UN sites on the Internet.

World Bank

This site includes descriptions of the World Bank's activities, press releases, a newsletter, a catalogue of publications released after July 1993, and information about research projects and conferences. There is also a link to  Commodity Price Data, also known as the "Pink Sheet," which provides monthly price data on a wide range of commodities.

World Intellectual Property Organization

Available in English French, and Spanish.

World Trade Organization

Official web site of the WTO. In addition to a wealth of legal texts and official documents, the WTO web site includes detailed trade statistics, research reports, current news and active community forums.