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The websites of National Statistics offices contain a good source of information on how the national accounts are compiled as well as macroeconomic data sources.

• For the UK, visit the Office for National Statistics at www.statistics.gov.uk.
• For the US, visit the Bureau of Economic Analysis at www.bea.gov and the Bureau for Labor Statistics at www.bls.gov.
• For the European Union, visit the European Central Bank at http://www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html.

Information on the Bank of England’s macroeconomic model can be found at www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/other/beqm/index.htm.

A very good source of material on the EMU and UK entry is the HM Treasury website: www.hm-treasury.gov.uk.  In particular, HM Treasury, UK Membership of the Single Currency: An Assessment of the Five Economic Tests.  There are also 18 papers on a variety of subjects by academic economists that are free to download.

Two good websites for data and readings on economic growth are the World Bank and the Penn World Tables, which can be found at:
www.worldbank.org.
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/.

World macroeconomic outlook reports can be found on the IMF website, which also includes videos of policy speeches: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/weorepts.htm.

International trade data and progress in the Doha Round of trade negotiations (the “development round”) can be found on the WTO website: http://www.wto.org/.

Topical data and analysis of OECD countries can be found at: http://www.oecd.org/.

Readings on developing countries can be found on the website of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER): http://www.wider.unu.edu/.

The website for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) includes data and information on transition economies: http://www.ebrd.com/.

There are good sets of readings on currency crises by Paul Krugman, which can be found on his website:

• Krugman, Paul, 1998, “What Happened to Asia?” Speech, http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/DISINTER.html.
• Krugman, Paul, 1999, “Balance Sheets, the Transfer Problem and Financial Crises,” mimeo, http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/FLOOD.html.
• Krugman, Paul, 1999, “Analytical Afterthoughts on the Asian Crisis,” mimeo,
  http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/MINICRIS.htm.
• Krugman, Paul, 1997, “Currency Crises,” NBER conference paper, http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/crises.html.