World Bank Annual Report Since 1996

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The World Bank Annual Report 2007
		Web Site and Full Report (free download) in 9 languages

The Annual Report is prepared by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) in accordance with the by-laws of the two institutions. The President of the IBRD and IDA and the Chairman of the Boards of Executive Directors submit the Report, together with the accompanying administrative budgets and audited financial statements, to the Board of Governors.

Other Annual Report Editions (online)
English
	2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
عربي  (Arabic)
	2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001
Bahasa Indonesia
	2006
Chinese
	2007, 2006
Français
	2007, 2006, 2005, 2000, 1999, 1996
Español
	2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1996
Hindi
	2007, 2006
Japanese
	2007, 2006
Português
	2007, 2006, 2005
Русский  (Russian)
	2007, 2006, 2005
Deutsche
	1999

Penn World Table for All Country Data Since 1950

Those who are interested in world economy Penn World Table provides a beautiful resource for them. huge statistics since the year 1950 for almost  all countries.

Just have a look.   This site provides data on -

Population
Exchange Rate
Purchasing Power Parity over GDP
Real Gross Domestic Product per Capita
Consumption Share of CGPD
Government Share of CGDP
Investment Share of CGDP
Price Level of Gross Domestic Product
Price Level of Consumption
Price Level of Government
Price Level of Investment
Openness in Current Prices
Ratio of GNP to GDP
CGDP Relative to the United States
Real GDP per capita (Constant Prices: Laspeyres)
Real GDP per capita (Constant Prices: Chain series)
Real GDP Chain per equivalent adult
Real GDP Chain per worker
Real Gross Domestic Income (RGDPL adjusted for Terms of Trade changes)
Openness in Constant Prices
Consumption Share of RGDPL
Government Share of RGDPL
Investment Share of RGDPL
growth rate of Real GDP per capita (Constant Prices: Chain series)

Software Resources

You Really Need these softwares to  do your research. Most of these are free and open source software. increase your efficiency and capability to do better reaserch with the help of these softwares.

• TeX Users Group
  The TUG website is the primary online source for the scientific document preparation system, TeX. The site contains news, information about TeX, and much more. There are several TeX distributions, these include MikTeX, TeX Live, and fpTeX. As far as TeX extensions go, LaTeX is probably the most ubiquitous; see the LaTeX Project site for more on this. Another useful tool is the bibliographic extension BibTeX (Riccardo Lucchetti also maintains a site that has an explicit economics/finance focus).
• TeXnicCenter
  TeXnicCenter is a handy integrated development environment for developing LaTeX-based documents on the Windows platform (an alternative is the WinEdt Shell); see also the editing platform GNU TeXmacs. For actual front-ends, consider the open-source LyX document processor, or the commerical Scientific Word. See also Scientific Letter, a plugin for equation-rich emails based on TeX. Other support software for the LaTeX world include: JabRef, an open-source BibTeX reference manager (BibEdit is a nice, faster-running alternative); Tex Pictures, a freeware vector drawing program (WinFIG is an alternative); and TeX4PPT, a LaTeX add-in for Powerpoint (TeXPoint is an alternative).
• MathType
  Those still sold to nonscientific word processors can use either MathType, Equation Illustrator, or Math+Magic as an upgrade to the built-in equation editors. Conversion to TeX can then be effected using Word2TeX (or wvWare, which converts to LaTeX, among other formats), and in the other direction using TeX2Word (or TexPort).
• Stata
  Among packaged econometric packages, Stata is probably the one that comes closest to mainstream usage, especially in empirical international trade (although Limdep is also popular for working with cross-sectional data). Those working with more time-series international finance data might prefer Quantitative Micro’s eViews, or RATS (or Timberlake’s Ox, for which the command-line version is free for academic use). The Econometrics Journal also has a very extensive, annotated set of links to online software for economics.
• Scilab
  Scilab, and the similarly open-source R Project (fast becoming an industry standard, although still not as popular in the discipline), are high-level mathematical mathematical and statistical programming languages, used commonly in quantitative macroeconomics. Commercial versions include Mathwork’s Matlab and Aptech System’s Gauss.
• Maxima
  Together with Axiom, you have two open-source numeric and/or symbolic computational engines, used to solve all sorts of complex equations either numerically or algebraically. The most popular commercial realizations are Mathematica, Maple, and MuPAD. Maxima also has a GUI interface through wxMaxima.

Few New Papers on Game theory. Hope these papers might help you.

Games of Capacities: A (Close) Look to Nash Equilibria

Antonio Romero-Medina; Matteo Triossi

1. Reputation Effects

   George J. Mailath

2. Slightly Altruistic Equilibria in Normal Form Games

   Giuseppe De Marco; Jacqueline Morgan

3. A corrigendum to “Games with imperfectly observable actions in continuous time”

   Hashimoto, Tadashi

4. Games of strategic complementarities: An application to bayesian games

   Vives, Xavier

5. Language, meaning and games: a model of communication, coordination and evolution

   Stefano Demichelis; Jörgen W. Weibull

6. A short note on joint welfare maximization assumptions

   Dritan Osmani; Richard S.J. Tol

7. Toward Farsightedly Stable International Environmental Agreements, Part two

   Dritan Osmani; Richard S.J. Tol

8. Risk Exchange as a Market or Production Game

   Borglin, Anders; Flåm, Sjur

9. How much is a friend worth?: directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks

   Stephen Leider; Markus M. Möbius; Tanya Rosenblat; Quoc-Anh Do

NB: From next post we will put new article on research page.

Competitiveness Ranking

Nowadays economists are concentrating more on business opportunities. here is some report

This week the Economist Intelligence Unit published its Business environment rankings

The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2007-08

The IMD’s World Competitiveness Yearbook 2007

YOU CHECK THE DIFFERENCE

the World Bank’s Doing Business 2008