The Latin American Library
   
Home
Collections
Research
Services
Programs
         

Research: Guides: Business & Economics

Databases
Business & Economics Journals
Statistics

 

Databases [Off Campus? Log in to access Tulane Subscription Databases]

HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodical Index) CORE

HAPI offers authoritative information about Latin America, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the US. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Coverage: 1970 - present.
[Tulane Subscription]

Handbook of Latin American Studies CORE

A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

HLAS Online

This interface covers 1936 - present and includes Table of Contents (Introductory Essays: Vols. 50-59).

HLAS Web

This new interface only covers 1990 - present. The new and improved interface allows you to save your search history, select records for Save, Print, and Email and allows you to limit searches by date, language, type (Book/Article), place of publication.

Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Reports CORE

Analysis of political and economic trends for more than 30 countries Central America, South America and the Caribbean. See also the the EIU Viewswire for country-specific forecasts and risk assessments. [Tulane Subscription]

Country Report (Print Format)
Quarterly report on political and economic developments and outlook in the Central American countries.
Guatemala, El Salvador (HC141.Q3162)
Nicaragua, Honduras (HC141.Q326)
Costa Rica (HC143.A1C68)

Economist Intelligence Unit: Market Indicators & Forecasts CORE

A database of of current information on industries, wages, markets, demographics, infrastructure and the environment for more than 30 countries Central America, South America and the Caribbean. [Tulane Subscription]

Economist Intelligence Unit: Viewswire CORE

Country-specific forecasts and risk assessments for Central America, South America and the Caribbean. [Tulane Subscription]

Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL, Naciones Unidas) CORE
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, United Nations)

Cuba On-Line

This is a full-text, searchable database that contains current economic, demographic, political, historical and business information on Cuba. Cuba On-Line is owned and maintained by the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies of the University of Miami.

Economia y Negocios

Economia y Negocios is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.

Info-Latinoamerica

This resource provides access to the business, political, legal and socio-economic trends of the entire Latin American region. It includes bibliographic recourds, full-text articles, abstracts, and detailed summaries on Latin American current events, business, and legislation from over 1,500 mostly non-U.S. media sources. Coverage: 1988 - present. [Tulane Subscription]

Inter-American Development Bank

Latin American Newsstand

This database provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Three business titles, El Economista (Mexico), Valor Economico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia) are also included. Includes an option for "on-the-fly" translation of articles into English.

Latin American Development Statistics (US AID)

Current and archival news sources in English comprised of local news digests from Latin America and the Caribbean, regional reports, personal briefings, special bulletins, research analyses, 5-year forecasts, and more. [Tulane Subscription: Tulane affiliates must obtain username and password from the Latin American Library. Access is for single user only.]

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (Oxford University Latin American Centre)

Contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000.

PAIS International and Archive

Covers the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. [Tulane Subscription]


Business & Economics Journals

Latin American Business Review: Journal of the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS)
Indexed by Hispanic American Periodicals Index.
HC 121.L27167 LAL Stacks

Latin Trade. (Miami: Freedom Communications, Inc., c1996-).
HF 3230.5.A35 LAL Stacks

Business Mexico. (Mexico City: American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, 1983-). Indexed by Hispanic American Periodicals Index.
HC131.B8 LAL Stacks

EcoAméricas: A Monthly Report on Development and the Environment in Latin America. (Santa Monica, CA: Fourth Street Press, 1998-).
GE 190.L29 E26 LAL Stacks

Estudos economicos. (Sao Paulo, Brasil: Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1971-).
HB9.E775 LAL Stacks

Momento económico. (Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas de la UNAM, 1983-).
HC131.M65

CEPAL Review. (United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America, 1976-). Indexed by Hispanic American Periodicals Index.
HC121.C46 LAL Stacks


Statistics

Anuario estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe /
Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean

New York: United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America. 1973 to date. HA751.U5 LAL Reference

Annual compilation of tables on economic and social development in each country of Latin America and the Caribbean, including population and demographic characteristics, employment and occupational structure, poverty, consumption and nutrition, health, education, housing, national accounts, domestic prices, financing and external indebtedness, external trade, balance of payments, natural resources and production of goods, and infrastructure services.

Inter-American Development Bank 

Provides statistical information on economic, social and institutional development-related issues.

Statistical Abstract of Latin America
Los Angeles: Latin American Center, University of California. HA755.S8 LAL Reference

Annual compilation of data on the Latin American countries, arranged in 12 parts: geography and land tenure; transportation and communication; population, health, education, and welfare; politics, religion, and military; working conditions and migration; illegal and legal industry; mining, energy, sea, and land production; foreign trade; financial flows; national accounts, government policy and finance, and prices; development of data; and guide to data.

See also: Guide: Statistics

Also consult:

Research by Subject: Economics (Howard-Tilton Memorial Library)
Databases by Subject (Turchin Business Library)

 

   
The Latin American Library : Tulane University : 7001 Freret Street, New Orleans, LA 70118 : (504) 865-5681
LAL Hours: 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM Central Time, Monday - Friday
Email us: LAL@Tulane.edu
Return to Tulane website Return to LAL home