Subject Guides: International studies: Development studies

Key resources

OECD iLibrary
Online library of statistical databases, books and periodicals. Statistics for OECD countries.
Business source premier via EBSCO
Provides full-text access to a broad range of scholarly business journals, country economic reports, and detailed company profiles. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Note: Company SWOT analyses can be found by searching under a company name and the term SWOT e.g. American Express SWOT.

World Bank Data
The World Bank Group works in major areas of development. Since 1947, the World Bank has funded over 12,000 development projects, via traditional loans, interest-free credits, and grants. They provide free and open access to global development data.

Our world in data
Is an open access platform with data informing 3123 charts across 297 topics that cover key global and developmental issues. You will find links to original data, with all visualisations open access using the CC-BY licence. The site is funded by the Global Change Data Lab, and the data, text and visualisation content is disseminated and curated by a collaboration of Oxford university researchers and scholars.

World Bank Research & publications
The World Bank has also published over 200,000 documents to increase understanding of development policies and programs. Resource types such as reports, working papers, and documents, along with the primary data on which they are based.
SDG Academy Library
Free, open educational resource videos from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development, as the world works towards the global Sustainable Development Goals.