Primary African Studies Government Information

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
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    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region
Also Known as: Reseau Documentaire International sur la Region des Grands Lacs Africains
Grey literature on social, political, and economic current history of the African Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda and the surrounding countries -- Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republique...   [more]
Holdings: 1990 to 2009.
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Important African Studies Government Information

Africa Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank Africa Development Indicators
Online access to detailed data on 53 African countries from 1960 to 2006, including over 1,000 indicators covering: National Accounts, Millennium Development Goals, Paris Declaration indicators, Priva...   [more]
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Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program
African Development Bank program to collect data and case studies on gaps, funding and access to air transport, ICT - information, computing, and telecommunications - irrigation, ports, power, railway...   [more]
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African Development Bank Group
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African Organisations (ISS)
Also Known as: Key documents of the AU / OAU, ECOWAS, SADC, IGAD, COMESA, ECCAS, EAC, and the AMU
Fulltext key documents of the AU/OAU (African Union / Organisation of African Unity), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Interg...   [more]
Holdings: 1963-present
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African Union = Union Africaine
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BDEEP - British Documents on the End of Empire
An annotated selection of official documents from the UK National Archives, charting British withdrawal from its colonial territories, with editorial apparatus....   [more]
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Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Core U.S. State Department documents, current policy statements. Background information includes commercial guides to individual countries....   [more]

Catalogue of British parliamentary papers in the Irish University Press 1000-volume series
Website providing title lists for the Irish University Press 1000-volume collection of 19th-century British parliamentary papers. Search Franklin for individual subseries titles in this collection....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    IUP 1000-volume set: Colonies: Africa

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Also Known as: COMESA
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DATA - Debt AIDS Trade Africa
Advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Publishes DATA Report, biennial report on G-8 progress toward Gleneagles foreign aid commitments....   [more]
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Development Experience Clearinghouse
Also Known as: USAID DEC
USAID technical and program documents on international development projects funded by USAID. Topics covered include democracy and governance, conflict resolution, economic growth and agricultural deve...   [more]
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Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), United Nations
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Economic Community of West African States
Also Known as: ECOWAS
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Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Endangered Archives Programme - Africa projects

Evaluation Resource Center - UN Development Programme
Fulltext database for UNDP project documents, 1990s-present. In part, a successor to AccessUNDP....   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
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HOLIS 14 Points application
Reports on humanitarian aid from EU country donors and ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office). Provides dollar values and brief descriptions of individual relief programs....   [more]
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Human Development Reports
Fulltext for UN Development Programme global, regional, and national reports, describing development issues, including human rights, poverty, education, economic reform, HIV/AIDS, globalization, capac...   [more]
Holdings: 1990-present (national reports published on irregular basis)
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IMF Data Mapper
Choropleth mapping and data graphing for IMF time series, including variables from World Economic Outlook, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, AFR Regional Economic Outlook,...   [more]
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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania)
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Jumbo Report
Also Known as: Jumbo Rapport de conjoncture et Previsions des pays de la Zone Franc
Semiannual evaluation of 2-year economic and financial forecasts for the CFA area, including WAEMU, West African Economic and Monetary Union, and CAEMC, Central African Economic and Monetary Community...   [more]
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Library Strengths in Official [British] Documents: selected sources for Africa
From Green Library Reference Department, Stanford University. A truly wonderful piece of work describing an hideously complicated documents system. The Penn Library owns much of the material described...   [more]
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Living Standards Measurement Study
Also Known as: World Bank LSMS
Household survey datasets, documentation, and reports conducted in countries worldwide for the World Bank in 1986-present. Multitopic questionnaires collect data on households, covering housing charac...   [more]
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Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
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South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission (official website)
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Traces of truth: Documents relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
An archival sampler of the TRC and related activities, managed by Historical Papers (University of the Witwatersrand Library) and South African History Archives Project. Digitized documents were selec...   [more]
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U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations
Also Known as: USAID Greenbook
US AID's Greenbook shows a complete historical record of United States (U.S.) foreign aid to the rest of the world. The Greenbook reports all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for eac...   [more]
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UN High Commission for Refugees
Also Known as: UNHCR
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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USAID in Africa
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West African Borders and Integration
Website presenting information and documents on West African crossborder initiatives featureing juridical harmonizing and cooperation between public and private actors....   [more]
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World Bank Africa Household Survey Databank
Bibliographic descriptions, with many fulltext documents, of survey data and documentation on socioeconomic household surveys conducted in Africa....   [more]
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World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
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World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
Official web site. Includes overview of African health topics (with very recent statistical information via national feedback tables), links to national WHO offices. Regional Office web site on WHO We...   [more]
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    Country List - WHO Regional Office for Africa

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FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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National and International Data Sources and Links - United Nations Statistics Division
The UN provides links to the statistical agencies of member countries, as well as the names and links (where available) for statistical yearbooks for each country....   [more]
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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    Old URL, as DDRS

UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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WEB Site Locator for the United Nations System
Alphabetic Index of Websites of the United Nations System of Organizations . "This site serves as a portal to web sites of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, and specialized agencies. It al...   [more]
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