Finding Background Information: Economics

Gale Virtual Reference Library - contains hundreds of major encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other useful books, with over 80,000 entries relating to economics

Handbooks related to Economics - try this OneSearch search and modify as needed

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository - Annual Reports and Independent Evaluations 
Contains annual reports, financial statementsm and reviews from the World Bank and other external publishers.

AmosWeb Economic Gloss*arama 
Offers the ability to do a quick search or browse alphabetical listings of over 2,000 economic terms and concepts. Every term will include a “See Also” list of related terms.

Statistics Canada intro videos and podcasts provide good overviews of concepts like GDP and CPI:

VIDEOS
What is GDP? – 4:11 minutes
An Overview of the CPI – 3:25 minutes
PODCASTS (streaming audio)

Date Revised: 2023-10-31

 

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