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World development indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development; provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2001.

Tanzania Chapter

"A multilateral development bank whose shareholders include 53 African countries and 24 non-African countries from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Primary objective is to promote sustainable economic growth in order to reduce poverty in Africa."

Project of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs. Outstanding source for up-to-date information.

Produces the Human Development Reports.

A program of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Published by the African Development Bank- "An annual publication prepared by the Research Department and has become an important source of analysis and information on developments in Africa."

A comparative series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets, and civil society in Africa.

University of Bonn

A Designated Research Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council of the Institute of Economics and Statistics at Oxford University.

Africa-wide network established to provide readily available analysis, data, and tools of the highest quality to promote evidence-based decisionmaking, improve awareness of the role of agriculture for development in Africa.

A Project of USAID

US Department of Education.

"The largest online resource for USAID funded technical and program documentation, with over 57700 documents available for electronic download."