Business Research Guides 

Paper resources at Yale: The Economic Growth Center Collection (EGC), housed in the Social Science Library, is one of the oldest and most complete collections of primary statistics from around the globe in the U.S.  Publications from India begin with 8S and can be browsed in the EGC stacks. The best way to find state-level information is to search in ORBIS by subject. Example: Bihar (India)--Economic conditions.  While IndiaStat (see below) replaces many paper resources, some titles are purchased only in paper. One example is the expensive publications of the CMIE, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, the most recent are in the Reference collection (8S S471 I3 A34) others are on the 3rd floor of SSL.

Indiastat  This is the most comprehensive source of statistics and the state level.

Oecd Economic Surveys India "..opens with a broad overview of economic developments over the past twenty years, showing how India has grown to become the third largest economy in the world. It then examines a series of specific policy areas including the unbalanced growth across states, competition policy and reforming India's product and service markets, improving the performance of labour markets, improving the financial system, improving the fiscal system, improving infrastructure, and upgrading the educational system."

UNData Country-level statistics on education, energy, employment, health and more.

World Bank elibrary South Asia Collection: One of the most comprehensive collections in the area of social and economic development. Resources include: All current and recent World Bank titles, documents and papers in PDF and other user-friendly formats,available as soon as they appear in print.

WDI World Development Indicators: Provides over 500 time series of economic and socio-economic data from more than 230 countries, incorporating data from the World Bank publications World Tables, Social Indicators of Development, World Population Projections, the World Development Report, and the World Bank Atlas.

ASEP/JDS databank  Although primarily Spanish, this public opinion database includes the World Values Study which includes perceptions of life, environment, work, family and marriage, politics and society, religion and morality, and national identity.

Although comprehensive business resources such as ABI Inform and Business Source Complete can be useful for some projects, other will need to delve into academic research in fields such as political science and sociology. The file entitled "Multi-database Searching" at the end of this section explains how to get started.

Unfortunately not all relevant databases are included in the Multi-database searching option.  Of special note are: 1. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN),  a database of international research papers. 2. Contemporary Women's Issues, and 3. Popline Citations/abstracts in the fields of family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries. For further suggestions on where to look for information please see: Research Guides by Subject.

Other resources of note that  cannot be searched simultaneously include Google Scholar, touted by Google as "a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature"  and Scopus. an important complement to Social Science Citation Index.