Introduction to Geography, 8/e

Arthur Getis, San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Economic Geography

Web Links

Agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (http://www.fao.org/ )



FAO Agriculture Department (http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/default.htm )



United States Department of Agriculture (http://www.usda.gov )



Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (http://www.agr.ca/index_e.phtml )



Iowa State University's Agriculture WWW Sites (http://www.ag.iastate.edu/other.html )

Trade
The World Trade Organization (http://www.wto.org/ ) The principal agency of the World's multilateral trading system.



International Trade Administration (http://www.ita.doc.gov/ ) of the Department of Commerce



Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (http://www.oecd.org/ ) Paris-based, gives access to comparative statistics from 25 economically advanced countries and to the documents produced to the OECD itself.



U.S. Department of Commerce (http://www.doc.gov/ ) Promoting American business, manufacturing, and trade.



The Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/ ) Contains economic data, including unemployment rates, worker productivity, employment surveys and statistical summaries.



The Economist (http://www.economist.com )

General "Economic" Sites
Resources for Economists (http://rfe.wustl.edu/ ) Sponsored by the American Economic Association and produced by Bill Goffe of the Univ. of Southern Mississippi



About.com (http://economics.about.com/money/economics/ )



Resources for the Future (http://www.rff.org/ )



U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Information page (http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals )



World Resources Institute (http://www.wri.org/wrisites.html ) Maintains websites for its areas of work in economics, forests, energy, sustainable agriculture, resources, and environmental management.



The World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org)

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