While international development is an interdisciplinary field, most databases of journal articles are not; instead, they collect articles from a single discipline such as economics or sociology.
The premier database for economic literature. This resource provides a comprehensive index of economic journals, books, working papers, and dissertations.
Columbia International Affairs Online includes full text working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences; abstracts of journal articles in international affairs.
Books and journal articles are used to access scholarly research in your field. Books take a long time to research, write, and publish. Journal articles are more current, shorter and are usually published faster than books. Consider books when you want coverage of a topic often tapping a wide range of scholarship.
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