Global Economy: Related Web Sites

  • World Economic Forum - international membership organization integrating leaders from business, government and academia.
  • World Social Forum - Annual international conference held in Porto Alegre, Brazil that focuses on the creation and exchange of social and economic projects that promote human rights, social justice, and sustainable development.
  • Corporate Watch - studies the social, ecological and economic impacts of transnational corporations.
  • International Financial Institutions Research Site - include basic references, books and monographs, published articles and recent working papers. From the Wellesley College Economics Department.
  • OECD - Groups member countries in an organisation that provides governments a setting in which to discuss and develop economic and social policy.
  • Yahoo! Finance: International Market Indices - updates-at-a-glance on markets from around the globe.
  • Globalization Issues - provides background material and offers opinion on globalization and its place in the world. From About: News & Issues.