Guide to the Global Economy
http://www.theglobaleconomy.com/

This website can be used by college, Masters and high school students with some or no economics background. In fact, that is one of their objectives: to make knowledge of the global economy accessible to non-experts. Also, the website can be used in the U.S. and internationally which fits with our second objective: to make this knowledge available to anyone anywhere. They use data provided by the World Bank to show the main economic indicators of all countries. Each indicator is presented in comparison to several other countries and in terms of changes over time. They discuss the definitions of the various indicators and provide information about the ways in which one can interpret them. See for example, data for the U.S. economic indicators. Features include: a) Understand how the global economy works: Brief lectures on the global economy with interesting examples; b) Compare countries: Interactive charts allow you to compare across countries and over time; c) Understand the economies of specific countries: Key economic indicators with definitions, comparison, and time charts; and e) Find more resources: Directory of global institutions, news agencies, blogs, data sources, and more. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources Subject Tracer™ .