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From the St. Louis Fed, "[t]he Research Division's goal is to promote quality economic research and contribute to economic policy discussions while expanding the frontier of economic knowledge around the globe in the areas of money and banking, macroeconomics, and international and regional economics."
The ILO is a UN organization devoted to promoting fair working standards. It is a good source for reports and statistics on global employment trends and policy.
"Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." Excellent source for working papers and datasets.
"RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 57 countries and 34 US states to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available."
The World Bank also know as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is a cooperative that provides technical and financial assistance to developing countries. Reports and data on health, infrastructure, trade, environment, education, debt, corruption, and industrial and agricultural development.
Contains information on how the UN delivers food to particular areas and under particular conditions. Plenty of development issues relating to hunger are covered in a myriad of .pdf reports available here.
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