Asia/South Asia Research Sources: General Resources & Statistics

Archnet is an expanding library with over 153,000 records for sites, cities, individuals, firms, media and pedagogical material focused on the built environment of Muslim societies

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.

Created by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.

The Portal to Asian Internet Resources, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a cooperative project of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The project provides a user-friendly, searchable catalog through which scholars, students and the general public have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia identified, evaluated, selected and cataloged by area library specialists.

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) | Print collection contains over thirty thousand (30,000!) digitized print items. These items include newspapers, serials, and journals; colonial reports, censuses, and government documents; works of art, history, and literature; studies in economics, politics, and social structure; reference works, dictionaries, and more.

View the latest macroeconomic and social data for each of ADB's 49 member economies across Asia and the Pacific. Each page covers each economy's data on national accounts, prices, government finance, trade, balance of payments, money and banking, external debt, population, labor force, and social indicators.

The Transformation Atlas is an innovative tool that helps users explore the entirety of the BTI’s extensive data set. An engaging presentation of information and intuitive navigation structure provide easy access to the BTI’s key findings.

The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, headed by Assistant Secretary Donald Lu, deals with U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

OECD establishes evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications