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Facts and figures for just about every nation. You can find older versions of the CIA World Fact Book at University of Louisville. The CIA World Fact Book is also available at the CIA web site.
PRAXIS: Resources for Social and Economic Development provides access to an array of archival resources on international and comparative social development. PRAXIS has been designed to meet the informational needs of two audiences: social work educators and students with international interests; and, other educators and students who require assistance in locating useful national and international resources on social and economic development.
The Library of the Finnish Parliament maintains a listing of governmental web sites in other countries.
The Social Science Information Gateway collects links of Government and Public Administration information sources.
Political Science Resources are listed by Richard Kimber. The system is searchable.
The UT Library Online collects links to mostly US government information resources.
Government links by countries compiled in Yahoo

Institutions in Public Economics

Economics Departments in Public Economics and Political Economy are listed in EDIRC
Economics Associations and Societies are listed in EDIRC

Australian Government

Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point provides information on government, legislation and a list of departments and agencies.

Asian Government

Japan

Information from the official residence of the Japanese Prime Minister
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Mizuho Securities, provides English language Research and Links designed for non-Japanese. Topics include BOJ, MOF, bonds (JGBs, Samurai bonds etc), equities, Japanese politics, law, futures, credit ratings. There is also an international markets section which includes information on Japan/EU and Japan/US relations.

Government, America

Canada

The Government of Canada Primary Internet Site (Canada Site) is the Internet electronic access point through which Internet users around the world can obtain information about Canada, its government and its services. Direct links are also provided from this site to government departments and agencies that have Internet facilities.

The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has a collection of information for Canadians and international clients interested in Canadian foreign policy, international trade issues, business, investment, human rights, culture, education, travel, international law, and international organizations. Also included is information on diplomatic issues and Canada's world-wide network of diplomatic missions.
Parliament of Canada provides information on parliamentary issues as well as reference material.
Bank of Canada publishes Exchange Rates, Bond Yields, Historical Canadian-dollar Interest Rates, Historical Monetary and Credit Aggregates and Interest Rates, and Commodity Price Index on the Web.
Department of Finance Canada has included research reports and other publications on their website.
Industry Canada Web Server offers information about the department ranging from the Minister's biography to details on key programs.
Strategis -- Industry Canada Online -- provides users with direct access to business and consumer information resources, interactive tools, and a number of on-line and electronic commerce services.
Statistics Canada offers free tabular data from the latest Census results.

USA

"We the people..."

An Interactive Citizens Handbook is a guide to the U.S. Government
The Government Printing Office (GPO) and the General Accounting Office (GAO) provide access to Electronic Government Information Products.
The Umich Documents Center is a reference and referral point for government information. The web pages are a reference tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
American Government and Public Policy -page by the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.

FedWorld Information Network offers a central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.
State and Local Government on the Net: A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites offers a source for geographic access to all levels of government including Federal, State, County, Regional, and City/Town.

US Bureau of the Census Home Page
US Department of Treasury
US Department Of Commerce
US Department of the Interior
US Foreign Aid (US Agency for International Development, USAID)
US International Affairs information from the US Department of State.
US Library of Congress

US Tax History Project is established by Tax Analysts in 1995 to provide scholars, policymakers, students, the media, and citizens with information about the history of American taxation. The project pursues its mission through a program of web-based documentary publication and original historical research. The Tax History Project is a division of Tax Analysts, a non-profit, non-partisan organization fostering open debate on federal, state, and international tax policy.
The home page of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress provides a complete listing of all JEC papers released in the 104th and 105th Congress. In addition to information about events, news, hearings, reports etc., the JEC home page has numerous links to useful economic and government sites.
Economic Reports of the President
The US Securities and Exchange Commission provides corporate filings, SEC policy initiatives, enforcement actions and other material.
The Complete WorldWide Tax and Finance Site deals with taxation and financial subjects. It is constructed according to countries. The site is dedicated to managers and business people at all levels. Most of the material is provided free of charge.

National Archives and Records Administration provides a database of descriptions of various NARA holdings nationwide. The NARA mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience. In addition, some of the description have links to digital copies of the documents being described.
Legal Material Organized by Legal Topic (Constitutional Law, Copyright ...) from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School

RAND is a nonprofit institution helping to improve public policy through research and analysis.

European Government

European Union

EUROPA is a European Commission service offering information on the European Union's goals, institutions and policies.
The DG II - European Union Economic and Financial Affairs pages contain Euro exchange rates and yield curve, Documents and Publications, Selected statistical information (from Eurostat) and Press Releases from the Commission and other institutions.

Nordic Countries

Information from the Nordic Pages on Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

News from Finland from the Council of State of Finland.
Tilastokeskus (Statistics Finland)
Tilastotietoja Suomen kansantaloudesta (Links to Statistical Information on the Finnish Economy).

Switzerland

The Swiss Government

HM Treasury in UK (policy, indicators, news, publications ...)
Directgov provides titles of all UK government organisations who have pages on the World Wide Web.

Russia

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: REESweb: Russian and East European Studies
Russian and East European Network Information Center - REENIC - is a collection of links to websites with information about East and Central Europe, Russia, and the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union. REENIC is supported by The University of Texas at Austin.

Public Economics Publications

The International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities contains among other information a library of over 100 documents. A collection of links is available too.
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
NEP in Public Economics is a part of an announcement service which filters information on new releases of working papers into edited reports. These reports are generated by subject-specific editors and are circulated via email. The goal of the NEP project and the associated announcement lists is to provide subscribers with up-to-date information on new additions to the research literature.
An index of Public Economics Working Paper information is found via ideasH
EconWPA hosts Working Papers in Public Economics

Public Economics Communication

Mailing Lists in Public Economics are listed and described in RFE.
The RePEc Author Service (RAS) aims to link economists with their research output in the RePEc bibliographic database.
A database of Conference Calls organized by subject area is maintained at Inomics

Courses in Public Economics

Social Security and Public Pensions

The International Pensions Research Network (IPRN) integrates economics, finance and actuarial science to produce and dissemminate leading edge research on pensions and related social insurance issues associated with an ageing population.
The US Social Security Online provides a list of Social Security Web Sites Around the World

Security, Conflict, War and Peace

Economists for Peace and Security, formerly ECAAR, works to inform social scientists, citizens, journalists and policy-makers worldwide about the full costs of war and conflict, and to propose feasible alternative approaches to building international security.
ISN - International Relations and Security Network - is an electronic clearinghouse for resources and institutions in the field of international relations and security studies. It is run by the Center for Security Policy and Conflict Research at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. ISN hosts also the WWW Virtual Library in International Security.
The StratNet is a project of the Strategic Studies Program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. It is designed to provide academics, students, researchers, government officials and the general public with a research tool in the areas of Strategic Studies, Security, International Relations and Politics. The StratLink consists of links to International Relations, Military, Political, Security and Strategic Studies web resources from around the world grouped into sections.
The Intelligence and CounterIntelligence pages provided by Korea WebWeekly contain links to Intelligence and Defence related sites.

SIPRI Yearbooks: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.
The War and Peace and Security WWW Server provides a catalogue of books and access to periodical indexes, full-text periodicals and defence publications.

Office of the Director of Central Intelligence in the US World Wide Web Site.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) provides information about its mission and activities. NSA collects and processes foreign signals intelligence and it is also responsible for providing leadership, products and services to protect classified and unclassified national security systems against exploitation or intelligence threats. The NSA homepage contains an on-line tour through NSA's National Cryptologic Museum - with a sample of exhibits which chronicle American cryptology.

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