Asian Development Bank (ADB)

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Projects Database

ADB provides financial and technological assistance for its members in order to help them carry out multidimensional development projects and plans. ADB Project Database covers all of the development projects the bank support since 1966. Project Documents of the database summerizes these projects

ADB’s Statistical Database System Online

（SDBS）

ADB’s Statistical Database System Online (SDBS) is a major database of the type of Asian statistics. It contains each member’s national income, prices, financial revenue, trade, balance of payments, currency, bank industry, oversea debt, population, labor and social indicators in each year since 1975. Moreover, it contains monthly and seasonal indicators of some members. The sources of the data are mainly the department of statistics and principal bank of each member. Some sources are the databases and webpages of some international organizations.

ADB Publications

ADB’s different types publications can be browsed under the title “Publications” in its webpage. In this title, the public can effortlessly obtain ADB’s “New Publications”, “Key Resources” and “10 Most Downloaded Publications”, as well as required literature of different types by using “Publications Search” or “ADB Catalogue Search”. The materials may be read online free of charge and there are many downloadable versions in PDF format.

Food and Agriculture Organization（FAO）

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FAO Corporate Document Repository

FAO Corporate Document Repository (CDR) is an online digital library of FAO, and a major composition of WAICENT. CDR stores tens of thousands of valuable materials in HTML and PDF format, involving agriculture, food safety, and other fields that FAO works on. In electronic format, it collects FAO’s publications and documents and some non-FAO publications since 1986.

FAOSTAT

The Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) is an online database. So far it preserves 3 millions time series and cross-sectional data, dealing with agriculture, nutrition, fishery, forestry, food aid, use of land and population, from 210 states and regions. FAOSTAT includes 14 databases, including Production, Trade, Food Balances, Food Security, Prices, Investment, etc.

Faolex

FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date legislative database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources.

Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the full text of most legislation contained in the database.

(FAO. Faolex - legislative database on food, agriculture, environment and natural resources. FAO. Retrieved June 25, 2015,  from http://faolex.fao.org/faolex/index.htm )

 International Civil Aviation Organization （ICAO）

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ICAO Meetings

The information of ICAO meetings and events since 1998, including dates and venues, is available for enquiry on this webpage.

ICAO Publications

The bibliographies and full texts of all ICAO’s publications and journals from 1947 until now are collected on this database. 

International Labour Organization (ILO)

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LABORSTA Internet

LABORSTA offers statistical data about labor issues of over 200 countries or territories since 1969. Metadata that describes and gives information about the sources and methods for major national statistics are also available on this database. It can be browsed by topic, by country or by publication.

This center contains publication of ILO and important literatures about labor issues published by other international organizations. A major part of them is available for download and browse in electronic format. Hyperlinks to ILO Libraries in around the world are listed in the center.

NORMLEX is a new information system which brings together information on International Labour Standards (such as ratification information, reporting requirements, comments of the ILO's supervisory bodies, etc.) as well as national labour and social security laws.

The database include Over 88,000 records covering 196 countries and over 160 territories and subdivisions, providing full texts or abstracts of legislation and citation information.

The ILO Global Database on Occupational Safety and Health Legislation (LEGOSH) provides a picture of the regulatory framework of the main elements of OSH legislation, including OSH management and administration, employers’ duties and obligations, workers’ rights and duties, OSH inspection and enforcement, among others.
LEGOSH contains comprehensive legal information, which allows you to
1. Access synthesis of OSH legislation in English and authentic legal texts in original language;
2. Compare the legislation of several countries or regions on a particular subject;
3. Conduct customized searches;
4. Link to national and regional OSH institutions websites, OSH databases and other relevant sources of OSH legislation, policies and information;
5. Relate to the relevant comments of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR).

Labour Force Survey is a standard household-based survey of work-related statistics.

The KILM consists of country-level data on 17 key indicators of the labour market from 1980 to the latest available year, such as labour force participation , employment, hours of work, unemployment, wages and compensation costs, labour productivity, and income distribution and so on.

This database presents data compiled by or sponsored by the ILO, along with data from national statistical agencies and other sources. We have included links to the source web sites and references to the relevant print publications held in the ILO Library.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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International Financial Statistics

《国际金融统计》

The publication of International Financial Statistics started in 1948. It contains 32,000 sets of time series data of more than 200 countries. It mainly contains the statistical data of IMF members in exchange rate, fund, international discharging ability, reserved money, currency, bank account, interest rate, prices, commodity prices, products, government finance, labor, national accounts, import and export, and population. Selected key sets of data such as commodity prices, consumer prices, debt repayments, etc. are accumulated in regional and global statistical tables.

Balance of Payment Statistics

BOPS）

In BOPS, there are records of the flow of goods, services and finance in perspectives of globe, regions and countries. National messages provide a way to understand the state’s investment position in the world, as well as its external financial property and situation of owe debt. BOPS include data of 170 states that deal with major economic, financial and civil indicators such as government services and staff salaries. BOPS contains seasonal and annual data of different countries from 1967.

Direction of Trade Statistics

（DOTS）

DOTS contains seasonal and annual statistics of 186 countries from 1980. It presently serves as being the most comprehensive major source of information about trading. There are more than 100,000 sets of time series data dealing with import and export items between countries and trading partners. The statistics is accumulated in regional and global table according to countries or organizations.中。

Government Financial Statistics

（GFS）

Government Financial Statistics, originated by IMF, is an international standard method for financial statistics. It is presently used by all international organizations and most nations. It has are three fundamental features. First, it determines the categories for government according to the System of National Accounts (SNA). Second, in addition to official budget, it defines the whole governmental capital flow as object of statistics, including capital outside budget and social security funds. Third, with reference to international standard method of categorization, it formulates categorizing standards for financial statistics, and categorizes the capital flow of government according to multidimensional perspective such as government functions and economic property.

World Economic Outlook

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September WEO publication. Selected series from the publication are available in a database format.

(IMF. (June 25, 2015). World Economic Outlook Database List. Retrieved June 25, 2015, from http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28)

IMF E-Library

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

(IMF. (2015). About: IMF eLibrary. Retrieved June 25, 2015, from http://www.elibrary.imf.org/page/About/about;jsessionid=A4C45C5C520475D107383306DADAF79E)

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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OECD-ilibrary

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books,  papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It  replaced SourceOECD in July 2010.

OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

OECD iLibrary presents all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters in any available format: PDF, WEB, XLS, ActiveChart, DATA, ePUB, READ.

(OECD. OECD iLibrary: About OECD iLibrary. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/about/about)

United Nations (UN)

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UN Pulse

UN started publishing UN Pulse on May 2005. UN Pulse serves as a blog media to spread selected important up-to-date message of the UN system, including major reports, publication and documents.

Official documents of the United Nations

（ODS）

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also offers access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. Please click on Help for more detailed information.

A Japanese donation of more than 30,000 digitized documents has been added to the ODS. Click here for more information, and if you would like to contribute digitized items.

The ODS is a multilingual system. Therefore, it requires UNICODE-based Internet browsers, such as MS Internet Explorer 5.5, Netscape 6.21 or higher versions. For access to the ODS, please ensure that your Internet browser complies with this requirement.

(ODS. (2004). ODS Search. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E)

United Nations Bibliographic Information System

（UNBSnet）

The database UNBISnet includes an integrated search engine for literature that covers documents printed by and collection of UN since 1979. UNBISnet consists of three sub-database: the Bibliographic Records is a Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva; the voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 1st session (1946-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-); the Index to Speeches contains citations to speeches made in the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-), the Security Council beginning with its 38th year (1983-), the Economic and Social Council beginning in 1983 and the Trusteeship Council beginning with its 15th special session (1982).

(UN. (2015). UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://unbisnet.un.org/index.html )

United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database

The database contains detailed import and export data since 1962, which are in the reports of statistic departments of over 200 countries and regions. Containing 1.5 billion pieces of trading records, it is considered to be the most comprehensive database dealing with trade.

UN Data

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org / ). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
(UN Statistics Division. (2015). UNdata | about us. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=About )

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online

Statistical data of over 200 countries and regions are available in MBS. It contains monthly, seasonal and annual diverse data such as population, prices, employment, wage, energy, manufacturing industry, transport, architecture, international products trading, finance, etc. Online resources cover data since 2000. Printed materials are covered from1941.

National Accounts Main Aggregates Database

The National Accounts Main Aggregates Database presents a series of analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world. It is the product of a global cooperation effort between the Economic Statistics Branch of the United Nations Statistics Division, international statistical agencies and the national statistical services of these countries and is developed in accordance with the recommendation of the Statistical Commission at its first session in 1947 that the Statistics Division should publish regularly the most recent available data on national accounts for as many countries and areas as possible. The database is updated in December of each year with newly available national accounts data for all countries and areas.
(UN Statistics Division. (2015). Nations Statistics Division - National Accounts. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp)

Millennium Development Goals Indicators

The webpage presents official data, definition, methodology, and sources of over 60 indicators that help track progress on Millennium Development Goals made in the year 2000 in the UN Millennium Declaration. The indicators were selected by international and national experts for accessing progress over the period from 1990 to 2015. Moreover, official achievement reports and documents edited by experts are posted on the webpage. The progress of Millennium Development Goals can be checked also by the continuing updated news on the webpage.

Gender Info 2007

Gender Info 2007 is a global database of gender statistics and indicators on a wide range of policy areas, including: population, families, health, education, work, and political participation. It can be used by governments, international organizations, advocacy groups, researchers and others in need of statistics for planning, analysis, advocacy and awareness-raising. Users will find in Gender Info an easy-to-use tool to shed light on gender issues through customizable tables, graphs and maps. It is an initiative of the United Nations Statistics Division, produced in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

UNSD Environmental Indicators

UNSD Environmental Indicators disseminate global environment statistics on ten indicator themes compiled from a wide range of data sources. The themes and indicator tables were selected based on the current demands for international environmental statistics and the availability of internationally comparable data. Indicator tables, charts and maps with relatively good quality and coverage across countries, as well as links to other international sources, are provided under each theme.

Social indicators

Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources. The indicators presented here consist mainly of the minimum list which has been proposed for follow-up and monitoring implementation of major United Nations conferences on children, population and development, social development and women. In addition, the indicators supervise the performing situation after the conferences in the following area: fertility, children and aging population, the use of family planning contraceptives, education, sanitation, housing, human settlements, income and economic activity, literacy, population, unemployment, water supply and hygiene.

UNCTAD Handbook Of Statistics

The Handbook of Statistics (printed & DVD) provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings.

Commodity Price Bulletin

Commodity Price Bulletin provides commodity price indices of relevant states and international market price measured with dollar. The commodities include three main categories: 1) food and drink 2) oil, agricultural raw material 3) mineral and metal.

UNCTAD Statistics

UNCTAD Statistics is an inherent part of UNCTAD. Being the United Nations' focal point for the integrated treatment of trade and development and the interrelated issues in the areas of finance, technology, investment and sustainable development, UNCTAD compiles, validates and processes a wide range of data collected from national and international sources.

UNCTAD Discussion papers

UNCTAD Discussion papers is a set of academic reports whose contents covering international trade, financial, investment, technique, macro economy, China industry reform, international capital, exchange rate policy, etc.

UNEP Resource Kit

This website is designed to serve as a central repository where users may retrieve resources produced by UNEP. Available information includes technical guidelines, clearing-houses, trainer manuals, databases, CDroms, publications and other useful tools.

United Nations Info Quest

UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest), a ready-reference file created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to respond to frequently asked questions, is designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers for UN materials (1946 onwards). It does not give full bibliographic details nor does it replace existing bibliographic databases (UNBISnet) produced by the Library. UN-I-QUE focuses upon documents and publications of a recurrent nature: annual/sessional reports of committees/commissions; annual publications; reports periodically/irregularly issued; reports of major conferences; statements in the General Debate; etc. Information within each record is presented in reverse chronological order to facilitate identification of the most recent data.

Question of Palestine

Materials of UN on the Palestinian issue and related issues, the Middle East situation and seeking peace.

Biblioteca CEPAL

The database includes bibliographic information on the economy of Latin America and Caribbean area as well as social development.

Declaration and Conventions Contained in GA Resolutions

The database includes bibliographic information on the economy of Latin America and Caribbean area as well as social development.

Maritime Space: Maritime Zones and Maritime Delimitation

Maritime Space: Maritime Zones and Maritime Delimitation consists of national legislation, conventions and other related materials about maritime boundary demarcation.

1540 Committee

On 28 April 2004, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1540 (2004) under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter which affirms that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery constitutes a threat to international peace and security. The resolution obliges States, inter alia, to refrain from supporting by any means non-State actors from developing, acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, transporting, transferring or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their delivery systems.
　　Resolution 1540 (2004) imposes binding obligations on all States to adopt legislation to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and their means of delivery, and establish appropriate domestic controls over related materials to prevent their illicit trafficking. It also encourages enhanced international cooperation on such efforts. The resolution affirms support for the multilateral treaties whose aim is to eliminate or prevent the proliferation of WMDs and the importance for all States to implement them fully; it reiterates that none of the obligations in resolution 1540 (2004) shall conflict with or alter the rights and obligations of States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Chemical Weapons Convention, or the Biological Weapons Convention or alter the responsibilities of the IAEA and OPCW.

Mandate Registry

The database is able to proceed UN task inquiry so that to assist investigation. The main body consists of registers for the order of several member states, which provides searchable electronic bills of valid tasks that generated from session, security council and Economic and Social Council. Through the lists users can find and view the tasks approved by the United Nations.

United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database

（UNTERM）

UNTERM is a multilingual terminology database maintained jointly by the main duty stations and regional commissions of the United Nations system. UNTERM provides terminology and nomenclature in subjects relevant to the work of the United Nations. Information is provided in the six UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), and there are also entries in German and Portuguese. The database contains more than 85,000 words and is updated daily.
　　This database is a linguistic tool created primarily to facilitate the work of United Nations staff members and other people around the world who participate or are interested in the Organization's activities. The database is maintained by Terminology and Reference Section, Documentation Division, Department of General Assembly and Conference Management, with its headquarters in New York City. The database has been put on the Internet in order to facilitate the understanding of the work of the UN by the public who do not have access to the intranet of the UN Secretariat.

Treaty Body Database

Treaty Body is established according to specific legal instrument. Its main function is to supervise the implementation of various instruments on human rights inside the high contracting states. Hence, the range of its executive force is narrowed (issues involved with specific legal instruments), and with limited audience (only involved with states have approved the relevant legal instruments and still in deliberation). The decisions are made by consensus. Treaty Body Database contains four parts: committee members, documents, submitted reports and the conditions of approval and reservation, among which the documents count as the core. The documents are provided with three language version: English, French and Spanish and can be retrieved according to nation, reference number, treaty, category and newest clause.

Documents Of Charter-Based Bodies

Established under UN Charter, Charter-based Bodies is the organization to implement extensive tasks on human rights and take actions according to majority voting system. It includes the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated to monitor State parties' compliance with their treaty obligations. The documents of above-mentioned organizations can be found in the database by nation, task, theme, document number, time and organization.

UNHCR's Refworld

A report sets of documents about ancestral home condition, policy document and standpoint under international and national legal frameworks.

STATBASE(African Centre for Statistics)

The database is the data administration public platform of African Centre for Statistics that provides time series information/data query to bring data support to research on Africa and promote the spread of publication.

UNECE Statistical Database

UNECE Statistical Database provides comparable statistical data of Europe, North America and Central Asia, which includes country overviews, statistics on economy, forestry, gender, transportation and Millennium Development Goals, etc. Statistics are extensively collected according to state, theme and time period. Statistical simple list is also provided by category.

Collects human development reports from 1990 to 2013.

Collects United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, The Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, the main regulation of the law and future outlook. In addition, there is also Links to the texts of the 1958 Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea

The Global Peace Index (GPI) measures the state of peace in 162 countries according to 23 indicators that gauge the absence of violence or the fear of violence. It is produced annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The Global Peace Index is a composite index comprised of 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators that gauge the level of peace in 162 countries. These indicators can be grouped into three broad themes: the level of safety and security in a society, the number of international and domestic conflicts and the degree of militarisation.

GEO Database

The Global Economic Outlook (GEO) database contains selected macroeconomic indicators from the analysis and projections reported in the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP). The WESP is released in January and an update is released in June each year. There are two options to access data: the graphical interface and the traditional database. The StatPlanet interactive map provides country-level GDP growth and inflation rates from year 2000 onwards, with baseline forecasts given for the current and coming year.

ECOLEX is a database providing the most comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law. ECOLEX is operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. The content includes treaties, legislation, court decisions, literatures, COP decisions, etc.

The database is the leading information service system on international criminal law. It combines international criminal cases to provide legal information, abstract, reference tools, etc.

Through the web, database users can access short and full names of countries (193 UN member states), their capitals, and the major cities (population over 100,000) for many countries. The database contains over 2,700 country names, some 6,100 names for 3,362 cities, with more than 970 audio files. As a useful reference tool for geo-information management, the UNGEGN World Geographical Names Database will continue to be developed and improved, and updated on an ongoing basis.

The database provides easy access to country-specific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the United Nations system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

The database includes documents and related materials submitted to general periodic review mechanism and can be retrieved by session or nation.

UNHCR seeks to contribute to informed decision-making and public debate by providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date statistics. As such, the Statistical Online Population Database provides data and trends on the "Population of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR, in more than 180 countries.
In a single electronic platform, UNHCR's Statistical Online Population Database is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional, and global levels.

Since 1978, the United Nations has been publishing the status of multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements, presenting data on signatories, parties of relevant agreements and the texts of the agreements themselves.

Since 1981, many countries have regularly reported their military expenditure to the United Nations. This helps enhance transparency in armaments and contributes to international security by fostering trust and confidence among countries. Access to all information from the UN Report on Military Expenditures database is now a click away.

Provides residential center publications, evaluation, city law, speech and urban indicators data.

UrbanLex is a global collection of urban laws, compiling urban laws from 190+ member nations in a fully relational database. The laws are fully searchable and categorized by the following key topics:
• Urban Planning
• Natural and Cultural Resources
• Taxation, Finance and Economic Development
• Building and Construction
• Disaster Recovery and Resilient Cities
• Infrastructure and Basic Services (Water, Sewerage, Electricity, Transportation)
• Governance and Government

The database currently contains data about UNHCR's populations of concern from the year 1951 up to 2014 and you can use it to investigate different aspects of these populations: their general composition by location of residence or origin, their status (refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, etc.), their evolution over time, and so on..

Womenwatch is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide an internet space for global gender equality issues and to support implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies, and academic and research institutions.

The Global Gender Equality Constitutional Database is a repository of gender equality related provisions in 195 constitutions from around the world.

Data of nations and cities all over the world. Open to the public for free.

The 2015 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-fourth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The main results are presented in a series of Excel files displaying key demographic indicators for each development group, income group, major area, region and country for selected periods or dates within 1950-2100. A publication labelled Key findings and advance tables, which provide insights on the results of this latest revision, is also made available here.

 
This database provides data of urbanization as well as growth rate of population

International Migrant Stock provides numbers of population born in every country (including refugees). The basic data is made from demographic census every decade, part of the data is from registration and state investigation.

The World Population Policies Database provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the population policy situation and trends for all Member States and non-member States of the United Nations. The database shows the evolution of government views and policies with respect to population size and growth, population age structure, fertility, reproductive health and family planning, health and mortality, spatial distribution, and internal and international migration within the context of demographic, social and economic change.

The online migration law database draws together migration related instruments and relevant norms regulating migration at the international and regional levels. The following sources of information are being included: relevant international, regional and bilateral treaties; international and regional resolutions, declarations and other instruments. The database will soon also contain relevant and prominent case law.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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Description

Unesco Institute for Statistics

This is a graphical database that provides comparable data about aspects of global education, science and technology, and cultural exchange among different nations and regions.

UNESDOC Database

UNESCO Database incorporates the documents, publication, journals issued by the organization since 1945, as well as the bibliographic records and partial texts of the collection in UNESDOC Library. The database is updated every day.

United Nations iLibrary

UNESCO institute of statistics in the spring of 2016 cultural products and services on global trade statistics released the latest report, in 2013 by 10 years, despite the global has experienced the recession and mass in film, music and other products in the consumer shift to service based on network platform, cultural products trade doubled during this period. At the same time, China overtook the US as the biggest exporter of cultural products. According to the report, art and artifacts rose to 10 types of cultural products in the trade of the world's biggest trade ranking, it is mainly affected by the gold ornaments. In addition, the portion of statues, sculpture and painting, and other products in the arts and crafts products has increased. Report also pointed out that, music, movies and newspapers, and other products are gradually become a part of the cultural services, but have huge impact by digital production process. Report said that despite the trade of printing products, including newspapers also fell, but the books as important cultural products, increased up to 20% over the same period in some areas.

United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Resources

Description

UNWTO Elibrary

The UNWTO Elibrary is an online service from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) with a broad coverage of tourism and related subject areas.
The UNWTO Elibrary is an information source offering an unparalleled coverage of research and information in the area of tourism and available to our Member States, Affiliate Members and Subscribers. The subject areas reflect all important themes moving the tourism sector and include, among other, ecotourism, sustainable development, finance and investment, risk and crisis management, market research, tourism statistics and poverty alleviation. The UNWTO Elibrary contains books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator.
(UNWTO. (2015). UNWTO Elibrary. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://www.e-unwto.org )

Tourism Factbook Database

The database contains the latest and most up-to-date tourism statistics for all the countries and regions around the world. Data on inbound, domestic and outbound tourism is available, as well as on tourism industries, employment and complementary indicators. Besides the convenient access by alphabetical or geographical selection, the Tourism Statistics section offers a multiple country search as well as other additional data sets. All statistical tables available are displayed and can be accessed individually.
(UNWTO. (2015). Tourism Statistics. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://www.e-unwto.org/loi/unwtotfb )

World Bank (WB)

Resources

Description

Global Economic Monitor (GEM)

Daily and monthly global economic reviews are posted on GEM. Daily updates of high rated direct deposit or withdrawal and data forecast are provided.

WB Publications & Documents

The webpage presents over 15,000 documents, including project reports, analytical evaluation (free of charge for download), and research reports of any category and other information.

Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR also increases the range of people who can discover and access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.
The OKR is built on DSpace and is interoperable with other repositories. It supports optimal discoverability and re- usability of the content by complying with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards. All OKR metadata is exposed through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) protocol.
By extending and improving access to World Bank research, the World Bank aims to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to use Bank knowledge to help improve the lives of those living in poverty.
Since its launch in 2012, millions of publications have been downloaded from the OKR, and nearly half of its users are in developing countries.
(The World Bank Group. (2015). OKR: About. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/about)

This database offers time series data of different types.

World Health Organization（WHO）

Resources

Description

Global Health Atlas

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR also increases the range of people who can discover and access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.
The OKR is built on DSpace and is interoperable with other repositories. It supports optimal discoverability and re- usability of the content by complying with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards. All OKR metadata is exposed through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) protocol.
By extending and improving access to World Bank research, the World Bank aims to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to use Bank knowledge to help improve the lives of those living in poverty.
Since its launch in 2012, millions of publications have been downloaded from the OKR, and nearly half of its users are in developing countries.
(World Health Organization. (2003-2007). WHO | Global Health Atlas. Retrieved June 26, 2015, from http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp)

WHO Global InfoBase Online

The database contains data from WHO members that is dealing with chronic diseases and their high risk factors.

Global Health Observatory
(GHO)

GHO provides data and analysis of investigation on global health situation. The original “WHOSIS” was upgraded and merged to GHO, which also offers national statistical figures that are 50 key indicators such as mortality rate, incidence of diseases, high risk factors, health service penetration rate and hygiene system, etc.

The database offers statistics about disaster occurred on each country that are categorized according to the states of country. It was found by Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Belgium and is subsidized by WHO.

World Intellectual Property Organization（WIPO）

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Global Brand Database全球商标数据库

本数据库可轻松检索超过2644万条受国际保护的商标，原产地名称，徽号，旗帜，和其他国家标识，以及名称，缩略语和政府间组织标记的记录。

ROMARIN database国际商标信息数据库

ROMARIN国际商标信息数据库能让您对马德里体系国际注册簿上所有登记在册的国际商标以及以往注册和处理中的申请数据进行初步检索。您可以看到竞争对手的举动，还能看到哪些商标已经注册，在哪些商品和服务上注册。
见《在海外保护商标 马德里体系》

IP Advantage database知识产权案例数据库

提供真实案例，有助于用户感悟到知识产权如何在现实世界中发挥作用，以及它的成功使用如何对发展做出贡献。

Database WIPO标准管理数据库 （WIPOSTAD）

主要包括以多种语言出版和修订的工业产权领域的WIPO标准，以及工业产权局（IPOs）有关专利、商标和工业设计的规定。

World Trade Organization（WTO）

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Documents Online Database

Documents Online provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization. The database contains over 100,000 documents in the three official languages from 1995 onwards and is updated daily. All WTO documents are posted in PDF and WORD format. The application provides a descriptive catalogue record for every document stored in the archive. It is possible to consult all of these documents online and also to download selected documents from the site.
(WTO. Documents Online Home page. Retrieved June 29, 2015, from https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S005.aspx)

WTO Statistics Database

WTO statistics database, which allows you to retrieve statistical information in the following presentations.

·         ·The Trade Profiles provide predefined information leaflets on the trade situation of members, observers and other selected economies;

·         ·The Tariff Profiles provide information on the market access situation of members, observers and other selected economies;

·         ·The Services Profiles provide detailed statistics on key infrastructure services (transportation, telecommunications, finance and insurance) for selected economies;

·         ·The Time Series section allows an interactive data retrieval of international trade statistics.

(WTO. WSDBHome. Retrieved June 29, 2015, from http://stat.wto.org/Home/WSDBHome.aspx?Language=)

WTO Publications

This webpage provides a wide range of publications, including WTO’s publications, legal literature, statistics, research and analysis, trade, dispute settlement, and other materials. Many publications can be read online and downloaded free of charge. Key and the newest publications are listed on the webpage.

Government of Canada

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Government of Canada Publications Catalogue

This catalogue contains over 250,000 Government of Canada publications.

European Union（EU）

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EuroStat

EuroStat offers statistics on Europe based on 9 themes.