Asia Insights - Free Internet Links on Asia

By Oleg & Maria Stalbovsky, published June 2006 by GlobaLex. GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international
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The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. The archive is searchable by region, sub-region, country and theme.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex

Self description: CentralAsiaOnline.com is a website sponsored by USCENTCOM to highlight movement toward greater regional stability both through bilateral and multilateral cooperative arrangements. CentralAsiaOnline.com also focuses on developments that hinder both terrorist activity and support fo
http://centralasiaonline.com

This series of profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/list.html

Self description: This three-year project aims at analyzing the institutional arrangements currently being developed and redefined in Central Asian economies. It expands the “Varieties of Capitalism” (VoC) research agenda to transition countries in Central Asia; notably Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, an
http://www.centralasiaproject.de

he Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990. Each Report focuses on a highly topical theme in the current development debate, providing path-breaking analysis and policy recommendations. National human development reports at the country level have been published in more than 120 na
http://hdr.undp.org/

Provides information on any member country's relations with IMF. Includes: * IMF publications about the member country. * The country's position in the Fund (when it joined, its quota size). * When its last Article IV consultation with the Fund took place. * The country's financial
http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individu
http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28

e-book (2007). Thanks to the collapse of the USSR, whose closed border stood like a wall across the heart of Eurasia, to China's decision to open trade across its western border, and to the gradual return of Afghanistan to the community of nations, continental trade spanning the entire Eurasian land
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/GCA.html

World Health Organization provides country overviews of the health situation and statistics, as well as publications and documents, overview of programmes and special initiatives.
http://www.who.int/countries/en/