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There is more to the internet than "Google". There are a number of economic journal databases, s well as websites that will provide you with free access to economic journals and working papers that have been published in the past 10 - 15 years.
Important: Should you in any way use information from any of these articles, please be sure to reference your source in order to avoid plagiarism. For information on correct referencing methodologies please visit the Guidelines section. Under no circumstances will plagiarism be tolerated and any entries displaying plagiarism will be immediately disqualified.
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- REPEC is a searchable database that gives you access to journal articles and working papers, mostly free of charge. These artiles are sourced from the IMF, universities and economic think tanks. Type key words into the search function and it will bring up a list of relevant articles. The abstract of each article is provided. Read the abstract and decide whether it will be relevant to your research. If you want to download it, click on the article and on the following page click on "download this article".Click here to go to the site http://ideas.repec.org
- National Bureau of Economic Research provides free accss to the latest research by many American Universities. The website is updated ever week and you can subscribe free of charge to their mailing list. This will help keep you up to date with the latest research. The website also has a search facility which will enable you to search their database. Type in key words and when it delivers the results, go to Publications.Click here to go to the site http://www.nber.org
- International Monetary Fund provides a range of topical economic research, from inflation targeting and exchange rates to competitiveness and much more. Go to Publications and then search for articles by key words.Click here to go to the site http://www.imf.org
- Harvard on South Africa: a group of Harvard economists, in conjunction with local academics were employed to conduct research on the key challenges facing the South African economy.Click here to go to the site http://www.cid.harvard.edu/southafrica
- Eldis is a site that aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. It provides development-focused research from organisations such as UNCTAD (United Ntions Conference on Trade and Development) as well as development banks. They have extensive research on trade related research.Click here to go to the site http://www.eldis.org
- Centre for the Study of African Economies provides research on the South African economy, including work by Janine Aron on inflation targeting as well as research on exports by Neil Rankin.Click here to go to the site http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk
- Trade and Industry Policy Secretariat conducts research on trade and industrial policy for South Africa and the SADC region.Click here to go to the site http://www.tips.org.za
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Important: Should you in any way use information from any of these articles, please be sure to reference your source in order to avoid plagiarism. For information on correct referencing methodologies please visit the Guidelines section.
