Lemieux Library Guides: UCOR3600-10/INST3910-03 Understanding Global Poverty (Serena Cosgrove): Course Guide

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Welcome to this guide for UCOR3600-10/INST3910-03 (Understanding Global Poverty) for spring 2019

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Browsing reference materials is an excellent way to find background information and topic ideas.

CQ Researcher
Good starting point for research on "hot topics" in the news including science, education, politics and economics.

Congressional Research Service (Library of Congress)
CRS is well-known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective and nonpartisan. Its highest priority is to ensure that Congress has 24/7 access to the nation’s best thinking.
Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports
World Factbook [CIA ]
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities compiled by the CIA.
Library of Congress Country Studies
Description and analysis of the historical setting and social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
Political Handbook of the World [E-book]
Provides thorough information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. As a convenient, one-volume print source for global political information, each edition features country profiles.
The Statesman's year-book
Current year: 2nd Floor-Reference Books JA51.S7 [Print]

Statistical and historical annual of the states of the world
Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. 2nd ed. [E-book]
This online version of the second ed. reflects the changing world with a reassessment of many of the core themes of the previous edition, and new articles on the people, concepts, and events that have shaped the world since 1993.

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