The US Government Printing Office has again made available the electronic version of the Economic Report of the President (Last described in the February 13, 1998 Scout Report) immediately after it was transmitted to the Congress. 1998 witnessed the first budget surplus and the lowest unemployment rate since 1969, with real gross domestic product growing by 3.9 percent and inflation rising by only...

JSTOR has The Journal of Economic History to its collection of journals. Issues from 1941 to 1997 (v. 1-57) are now available for users at subscribing institutions. Note: access to JSTOR contents is currently available only on a site licence basis to academic institutions. A list of institutions with site licenses is available.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the May 1999 issue of the World Economic Outlook, a biannual assessment of the world economic situation. Overall, the IMF predicts a few years of slow growth, but no dramatic global recession. The full text of the 255-page report is available in .pdf format in six parts at the IMF site. Users can also access the WEO Database, which contains data in...

The World Resources Institute (WRI) offers an electronic version of the Guide to World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power. The report, which was distributed in part at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development conference in Johannesburg, is now available in its entirety to any interested reader. Issues addressed include direction for "environmental...