The library will soon be activating a subscription to the IMF Statistics E-Library, which will offer all four IMF statistics databases via one portal: International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, & Government Finance Statistics.  The subscription is set to begin July 1, 2009.

The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 is a new database on trial with the library from now until March 14.  Details can be found on the library's electronic trials web page.  If you have any comments please contact the Doe Library Economics librarian. 

The International Household Survey Network is the closest thing to a freely available online catalog of household survey data.  The web site is a joint effort of a host international government organizations (including the World Bank, United Nations Statistics Division, the International Labour Organization and many others - see a full listing here). Many of the household survey data sets are free; others are priced.  For more information about obtaining data sets please email the development economics librarian.

The library has just ordered the following book on the history of poverty in the United States:

Why America Lost the War on Poverty and How to Win It.  By Frank Stricker 

Welcome to the new economics blog for Doe Library at UC Berkeley! This blog will contain information about the Doe Library development economics and economic history collections, information about Library workshops and classes related to economics, and library news items of interest.