Country Research Guide: Haiti
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Electronic Resources from the OWHL
(These fee-based resources are restricted to members of the PA community.)
Culture / Government / Politics
- Articles on Haiti from the Worldbook Online Resource Center.
- CIAO. The fee-based CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online database from Columbia University, for instance, has carved out a unique niche by serving as an aggregator and centralized access point for international affairs research, including content that is already freely available on the Web. CIAO also identifies books, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, and policy briefs.
- CQ Global Researcher
- Europa World Plus. Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
- Latino American Experience. Despite the misleading title, this database offers a good deal of information on Haiti, including an interesting discussion of the life of a teen in Haiti.
News
- Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Universe is a great source for national and international news, including wire service stories and TV and radio news broadcasts.
Points of View
- Search for articles on Haiti from the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
- Search for articles on Haiti from the Points of View Reference Center
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Electronic Resources from the Free Web
- The Central Intelligence Agency's The World Factbook, which is updated periodically, provides country maps and information for topics such as communications, geography, economics, government, history, the military, people, politics, transportation, and transnational issues. This resource also provides country rankings for various attributes and offers appendixes with additional value-added information.
- NationMaster NationMaster use its data to produce interesting rankings and comparisons.
- The Library of Congress serves as a leader in designing and offering exemplary digitized collections and Web resource directories, in addition to providing library catalogs and bibliographic information for resources held in libraries worldwide. From its Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources, visitors may access both Portals to the World and Research Guides and Databases. From Research Guides and Databases, visitors may access Country Studies, often referred to as the “Area Handbook Series.” Each handbook presents an in-depth country analysis.
- Federal Reserve The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States, controls and monitors monetary policy, money supplies, and banking operations in the United States. Its libraries disseminate a wealth of information pertinent to country studies, especially information relating to macroeconomic variables. Resources available include Global Economic Indicators and Inflation Central: World Inflation, which features interactive charts.
- World Bank By navigating to the “Data and Research” page from the World Bank's home page, and then using the "Data" tab, users may view country information on the "Development Data and Statistics" page, including basic economic and demographic statistics. Researchers may navigate from this page to Millennium Development Goals and the Online Atlas of the MDGs, which also feature country information. Also available, under "Data" and then "AAGs," are the popular Country at a Glance tables. Two premier databases that provide detailed education and gender statistics are Education Statistics Database: EdStats and GenderStats
- United Nations Among its numerous databases, the UN offers two related general country studies resources: Cyberschoolbus and InfoNation. InfoNation Advanced's interactive capabilities include options to compare statistics simultaneously for up to six countries. Cyberschoolbus also links to the well-designed Country at a Glance, which uses a topical approach to provide information about UN member states. Sections include an overview and current news; the site presents information on the economy, environment, health, and technology.
News from the Free Web
The BBC (British Broadcasting corporation) is a great source of news. Compare the reports of a single event presented on BBC and a major American newspaper and you will begin to appreciate that even "objective" news is presented with a point of view.
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