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SamplePoverty reduction in Thailand
(poverty or poor) and (improve* or reduc*)
(government* or state* or public) and (poli* or regul*
or legisla*)
Thailand South-East Asia
ASEAN
(poverty or poor) and (improve* or reduc*) and Thailand
Journal articles
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EconLit
• Producer: The American Economic Association• Coverage: 1969 – present• Provides bibliographic references and abstracts of
journal articles, book chapters/reviews, working papers from RePEC, some dissertations, etc. More details.
• Contains more than 350,000 records on accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing etc.
• One of the major resources for Economics , mostly citations, some full-text.
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Poverty reduction in Thailand
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SamplePoverty reduction in Thailand
(poverty or poor) and (improve* or reduc*)
Thailand South-East Asia
ASEAN
(poverty or poor) and (improve* or reduc*) and Thailand
Econlit multi-field
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Scopus
• Producer: Elsevier • Coverage: 1841-1996 (17 million records) , 1996- (16
million records)• Largest abstract and citation database covering
science, technical, medial, social science• Use this to supplement your search to go beyond
Economics for multi-disciplinary papers.
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Scopus – Hands on
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Theses
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2. To search all NUS economic theses
• university singapore economics
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• Producer: Proquest UMI• Includes over 2 million master's theses and
dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year from Universities in United States and Canada.
• Provides full text access for many items.
Statistical data
Statistics basics
Select the following • Geographic coverage : Region, Country or
Country aggregate (e.g ASEAN)• Statistic series (e.g. Real GDP : US$ at 2005
prices)• Chronological coverage (e.g. 1980-2000
monthly)
EIU Country data• Producer: Economist Intelligence Unit
• Geographic Coverage: 150 countries, 45 regional aggregates (e.g ASEAN).
• Chronological coverage :1980- (annual) , 1993- (monthly, quarterly).
• 317 series (statistic data on macro indicators – Inflation, GDP, interest rates, trade balance of payments, demographics etc)
• Includes forecasts (figures will appear in green)
• Other EIU databases include– EIU MarketIndicators & Forecasts– EIU CityData – EIU Commodities
EIU Citydata
Knowing where to look
Statistical Sources• Access via E-Resources>Databases>By
type>Statistical Data and Economics subject guide
International• EIU CountryData, EIU CityData,
EIU Market Indicators and Business Forecast• International Financial Statistics • World development Indicators Online• SourceOECD (OECD Stat)• Statistics Database (World Trade Organisation)
Statistical Sources II
Business/industry related/Finance • Global Market Information Database (GMID) • ISI Emerging Markets• Frost & Sullivan• Orbis and Osiris
Statistical Sources III
Singapore• Yearbook of statistics, Singapore (print & web)• SingSTAT Time Series• Statlink• Singapore 1000 (CDROM)• Statistics on Singapore : annotated
bibliography
More statistics database
Country statistics
• Search the site of the countries' official body (e.g. department, ministry, bureau, agency etc) responsible for statistics
• http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html• http://isi.cbs.nl/directory.htm
List of statistical agencies
Tips for looking for statistics
• If subject is topical and/or country, you can try looking at websites of international or regional organizations devoted to the subject.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_organizations
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organizations
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• Don’t neglect print! Search LINC with subject heading . e.g China statistic
Subject Guides
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VendorUser NUS Library Proxy server
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Here is article X
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• Click on the link below and follow the instructions:
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