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  • Latin American Network Information Center The Latin American Network Information Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin library, has been archiving Latin American government publications and websites since 2005. The center currently archives over 300 websites quarterly and provides access to the collection from their main portal on the LANIC website.
  • Statistical Year book for Latin America (1975-1984)
  • Statistical bulletin for Latin America (1964-1972)
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1976, Latin America) [microfilm] In these initially classified research reports, the Central Intelligence Agency examines Latin American domestic politics, foreign relations, and economic issues. Specifically, the reports include an evaluation of Soviet objectives in Latin America, as well as reports on Cuban training of subversives, political instability, and clerical involvement in politics. The material then proceeds to evaluate each of eighteen countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. There is a disproportionate amount of material on Cuba after the Revolution of 1959, and the Dominican Republic around the time of American intervention in 1965. FILM BOOK 0066.
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  • Digital South Asia Library Contains digital materials for reference and research on South Asia. Contributors to the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia.
  • Asian Development Bank ADB is an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Headquartered in Manila, and established in 1966, ADB is owned and financed by its 67 members, of which 48 are from the region and 19 are from other parts of the globe. ADB’s main partners are governments, the private sector, nongovernment organizations, development agencies, community-based organizations, and foundations.
  • Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States Publications of the CIS Committee comprise information on twelve countries of the CIS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. The sources of information presented in the publications are official data of the national statistical services of the CIS countries.
  • Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific (1973-2007)
  • Statistical indicators for Asia and the Pacific (1983-2003)
  • Asia-Pacific population journal (1994-2006)
  • Asia-Pacific in figures (1995-2006)
  • Statistical abstract of the region of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (1981-2005)
  • International historical statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2005
  • Demographic and related socio-economic data sheets for countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (1993-2001) (Western Asia)
  • Bulletin on vital statistics in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region (1998-2004) (Western Asia)
  • The Arab world, Turkey, and the Balkans (1878-1914) : a handbook of historical statistics
  • Turkey in statistics (1995) (Turkey)
  • Statistical yearbook, Turkey (1980-1991) (Turkey)
  • Iran statistical yearbook (2004-2005) (Iran)
  • Vital rates in India, 1961-1981 (India)
  • Population and area of cities, towns, and urban agglomerations, 1872-1971 (India)
  • Statistical yearbook of the Republic of China (1975-2007) (China)
  • Monthly bulletin of statistics, the Republic of China (1975-2002) (China)
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1976, China) (1961-1974, India) (1961-1965, Pakistan) [microfilm]The topics covered include agriculture, balance of payments, the Chinese Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, dissidence, economics, foreign policy, the India-Pakistan War, Indochina, military issues, and threat evaluations. Individuals referred to include: Mao Tse-tung, Lin Piao, Indira Gandhi, Chou En-lai, and Chiang Kai-shek. FILM BOOK 0095
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1975, Japan, Korea)In addition to Japan and Korea, these Central Intelligence Agency records also concern Australia, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The records are mainly in the form of intelligence memos and there are a number of biographical reports. In the Far East section, memos from 1949 on Communist methods and vulnerabilities contain information on Indochina and the Malaysian Insurgency. The Indonesia section contains information on the confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia from June 1950 to April 1951. Also concerning the Korean War are memos on the use of the atomic bomb and on the probability of direct Chinese intervention. The latter memos chart the Chinese build-up in Manchuria and suggest, before the event, that some form of Chinese intervention was likely. FILM BOOK 0065
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1976, Middle East) [microform]In these initially classified research reports, the Central Intelligence Agency examines Latin American domestic politics, foreign relations, and economic issues. Specifically, the reports include an evaluation of Soviet objectives in Latin America, as well as reports on Cuban training of subversives, political instability, and clerical involvement in politics. The material then proceeds to evaluate each of eighteen countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. There is a disproportionate amount of material on Cuba after the Revolution of 1959, and the Dominican Republic around the time of American intervention in 1965.FILM BOOK 0066
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1976, Soviet Union) [microfilm]The reports deal with foreign policy, the economy, the internal political situation, and the military policy of the Soviet Union. Foreign policy issues include the Soviet tightening of control over Eastern Europe in the 1950s, the break of relations with Tito in 1948, the Soviet intentions and policy objectives in Korea, Western Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, the Berlin and Cuban missile crises, Soviet involvement in Vietnam, the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and relations with China. Economic reports cover subjects like the prospects of the Soviet economy, economic plans, foreign trade and the balance of payments, natural resources (especially oil), nuclear energy, agriculture and the grain problem, and Soviet banking activities abroad. The reports on the internal political situation deal with the succession after Stalin, the downfall of Khrushchev, Brezhnev's management of the Communist party, and control techniques of the Communist police. The subjects of military reports include Soviet military capabilities, intentions and activities, military spending, the East-West balance of forces, the arms industry, biological warfare, and Soviet military presence in Cuba and Vietnam. Other subjects include the activities of the KGB in Asia and Central America. FILM BOOK 0094
  • CIA Research Reports (1946-1976, Vietnam and Southeast Asia) [microfilm] This is a collection of Central Intelligence Agency material which was intended to provide the president and his advisers with accurate information upon which to base strategic decisions. Beginning in 1946 with records from the CIA's predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group, the collection provides examples of cables, memos, biographical reports, and situation reports covering the period from the final years of French colonial rule in Indochina through the end of United States military involvement in the region. Sample titles within the collection are "Consequences of Communist Control of French Indochina" (1949), "Threat of a Chinese Communist Invasion of Indochina" (1950), "Analysis of the Strategic Hamlets Program and the Montagnard Situation in South Vietnam" (1965), "An Appraisal of the Bombing of North Vietnam" (1965), and "An Analysis of Viet Cong Tet Offensive: Military Defeat, Psychological Victory" (1968). FILM BOOK 0090

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