Public Policy

* More country reports are listed here.

• Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)
  Includes global political and demographic indicators related to political stability.
• Correlates of War
  Provides access to quantitative data in international relations and the history of wars and conflict among states.
• Economic Freedom Reports 
  Reports and data from the Fraser Institute.
• Fragile States Index
  Ranking of countries based on indicators of risk.
• Freedom in the World reports
  Freedom House’s comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
  Includes regularly updated country profiles.
• International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)
  Monitors 161 countries, rating a wide range of risks to international businesses & financial institutions.
• International Monteary Fund (IMF)
  IMF's eLibrary provides access to periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.
• Political Risk Services: Country Data
  Provides political and economic data on over 140 countries and forecasts political risk ratings.
• Polity IV Project
  Data series with measures of democratic governance.
• Population Index, 1986 - 2000
  World population literature.
• Transparency International
  Reports, statistics, and analysis of global corruption.
• World Development Indicators (WDI) Online (World Bank)
  Development indicators, with time series for 208 countries from 1970-2005.

AND: Combines two concepts, both will be represented in the results.

• Lowers the numbers of results

• Ex: Canada AND policy

OR: Joins two concepts or synonyms

• Increases the number of results

• Ex: policy OR governance

NOT: Removes the results that include the word that follows it

• Lowers the numbers of results

• Ex: North America NOT United States

* truncation or wildcard: Place at the end of the root of a word and all the words with a different ending will be represented in the results

• Use instead of plurals / can also replace a letter

• Increases the number of results

• Ex: Wom*n = will show results with woman and women. Canad* will show Canada, Canadian, canadien, canadienne, etc…