Wednesday-Night

Sites for Economy & Statistics

C.F.G. Heward Investment Management (Chil Heward) - www.heward.com/Html/whatsnew.html

CAIF Can. Ass'n of Income Funds - www.caif.ca/
Margaret Lefebvre OWN is Executive Director

CIA World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Country profiles - indispensable!

Conference Board of Canada - www.conferenceboard.ca/
The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.

Economist's View - economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/
An entertaining collection of writings on economic topics, with comments by the owner of the blog, Professor Mark Thoma of the University of Oregon (http://www.uoregon.edu/~mthoma/).

Emerging Markets - www.emergingmarkets.org/
A unique, free access (registration required) source of information for investors, bankers and brokers working in the debt markets of the developing world. We provide a broad range of news, features and analysis. Emerging Markets gives you access to numerous sources of information in one place. Our own editorial is supplemented by contributions from leading voices on developing country economies, news from Euromoney plc, information from Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, academics, bankers and economists.

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development - www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
One of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.

Open Democracy - www.opendemocracy.net/
openDemocracy offers in-depth news analysis and commentary from a pro-Democracy, pro-Human Rights perspective openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.

US Census bureau international d/b - www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
Demographic data, world population statistics, country rankings to 2050

World Bank - www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is also a tremendous source of information.

World Bank Private Sector Development - psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/about.html
The role of private enterprise in fighting poverty – all the bloggers are members of the World Bank Group, but (the pretty divergent) opinions are their own.

World Oil - www.worldoil.com/default.asp
Oilfield information source, production figures, etc.