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2. Cluster
Bretton Woods Institutions
Segment 1: International Monetary Fund
Segment 2: World Bank
Segment 3: General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Segment 4: Alternative / Critical Research on the Bretton
Woods Institutions
Segment 5: OECD
Online Research Induction
Segment One – International Monetary Fund
3. • International Management
• International Political Economy
• International Business
• International Relations
Segment One – International Monetary Fund
Online Research Induction for Students of
4. • providing information about statistics, reports, papers,
publications provided by the IMF
• enable students to find supportive arguments for
essays, assignments and discussions
• delivering main-stream information and alternative
views
The topic will be
5. Data/Additional Data Sources
(http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm#data)
Range of time series data on IMF
lending,
exchange rates
other economic and financial indicators
manuals
guides
other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member
countries, and of the statistical community at large
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
6. International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
By clicking on these
‘crosses’, sub-contents
open with more
information resources
For email
notification,
sign up here
Links to other
international
organisations
7. World Economic Outlook Database
(http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28)
database is created twice-yearly
published in the April and September World Economic
Outlook publications
see also the World Economic Outlook Reports
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
8. Leads to data sets
- by country
- by country groups
- entire data set
- Latest updates
Further information provided
in different formats (.pdf
booklets, podcasts,
databases
Most statistical
data are available
under this
heading
9. Information retrieval by three
different search modules
Recent
updates
Link to the
discussion
forum
10. World Economic Outlook Reports
(www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=29)
IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments
concentration on near and medium term
chapters give an overview / detailed analysis of the world
economy;
consideration on issues affecting industrial countries, developing
countries, and economies in transition to market
address topics of pressing current interest
annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
13. IMF e-Library Data (http://elibrary-data.imf.org/)
offers predefined data reports
country
topic
dataset
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
14. Three ways of retrieving
predefined data reports:
- by Country
- by Topic
- by Data Source
15. Predefined Data Reports – Select a Country – Germany
Data are export-
able to Word docs,
Excel and are print-
able in .pdf format
By Country
16. Predefined Data Reports – Select a Topic – External Trade
By Topic
Data are export-
able to Word docs,
Excel and are print-
able in .pdf format
More data
reports available
17. Int. Financial Data (http://elibrary-
data.imf.org/FindDataReports.aspx?d=33061&e=169393)
Reports on
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
Economic Indicators World Reserve Positions in Fund
World Consumer Prices World Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
Holdings
World Export World Total Fund Credit and Loans
Outstanding
World Foreign Exchange World Total Reserves
World Gold World Total Reserves minus Gold
World Gross Domestic Products,
Real
19. Currency Composition of
Official Foreign Exchange
Reserve (www.imf.org/external/np/sta/cofer/eng/index.htm)
managed by the Statistics Department of the IMF but reported on a voluntary and
strictly confidential basis
disseminates end-of-period quarterly data in the format of statistical aggregates.
data published are aggregates for each currency for three groupings of countries:
total,
advanced economies
emerging and developing economies
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
20. Currency Composition of
Official Foreign Exchange
Reserve
currencies identified in COFER are: $, £, Y, C$, A$,
Euro
at present 145 reporters, consisting of
IMF member countries
non-member countries/economies
other foreign exchanges reserve holding entities
International Monetary Fund
(www.imf.org)
21. Please contact in the Library
Sven Griesenbeck
higgens@regents.ac.uk
For further information