Area Studies
Africa-Wide NiPAD 
Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies, Africa-Wide NiPAD contains over 2 million records with full-text links on all aspects of Africa.
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African Studies Abstracts
Provides an overview of articles from leading journals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden.
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AllAfrica
Contains the full text of over 1000 stories daily in English and French from over 125 African news organizations.
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AMED Links to Countries, Regions, and Languages
Provides links to research resources that include a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems.
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
ABSEES online contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books & chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications covering US and Canadian scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.
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Anthropology Plus
Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.
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ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
Maintained by the American Society of International Law, the guide sets out basic strategies to find international legal materials and examine what resources are available on international environmental, economic and criminal law, private international law, human rights, treaties, international organizations, and the United Nations.
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Audiovisual Library of International Law
Contains documents, tapes - both audio and video - and other materials on subjects of international law.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
Contains nearly 600,000 entries covering books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all subjects (but primarily in the humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, South, and Southeast Asia.
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Caribbean Abstracts
Database containing abstracts in English of selected books and articles in the humanities and social sciences published since 1989.
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Central and Eastern European Online Library
CEEOL provides access to full text articles from more than 200 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
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Chicano Database
Comprehensive index which identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos.
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China National Knowledge Infrastructure
CNKI (China Academic Journals, China Academic Journals Bibliographic Database, and China Core Newspapers) indexes and provides the full text to over 7,200 core Chinese and English journals, as well as over 600 newspapers published in mainland China.
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CIS and Baltics Publications
Includes a number of authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
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Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO contains theory and research on policy issues and current events in international affairs.
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Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Use "Connect via IP Access")
Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical, economic, and political information.
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Country Studies
Prepared by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division, these studies describe and analyze the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions for over 100 countries and regions.
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CountrySTAT
Country FAOSTAT provides statistical data on food and agriculture for countries.
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Credo Reference : Social Sciences
Includes the full text of over a dozen reference sources covering international relations, political science and sociology.
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Database on Developed Countries
Demographic indicators (in French) for developed countries (EU, Japan and North America) including tables for Natalité, Fécondité; Nuptialité, Divortialité; Mortalité; and Mouvement de la population.
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Databases of Russian / NIS Publications
Eastview databases containing the full text of current and older issues of Russian, Baltic and Ukrainian newspapers and journals.
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Development Experience Clearinghouse Database
DEC contains records for over 124,000 USAID technical and program documents with over 30,000 available for electronic download.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Contains over 3,000 biographies of deceased New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on the country.
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Digital National Security Archive
DNSA contains primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945 obtained by the National Security Archive.
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Directory of Development Organizations
Provides descriptions and contact information for 43,500 development organizations, including NGOs, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, foundations and research centres.
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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
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DIRSA Electronic Journals
DIRSA (Bivir) provides access to dozens of full-text Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese origin electronic journals available at the Library of Congress.
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E-Journals in History & Archaeology
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in History & Archaeology.
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E-Journals in Law, Politics & Government
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Law, Military & Naval Science, Political Science, and Public Administration.
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Editoria Italiana Online (Click on "Access for Institutions")
Electronic editions of more than 500 books and 100 journals, in a wide range of disciplines, produced by some of Italy’s most important publishers.
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eHRAF World Cultures
The Human Relations Area Files Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database of primary source materials on all aspects of cultural and social life worldwide.
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EIA Country Analysis Briefs
Provides an energy situation overview for countries, as well as world oil market and environmental data on energy production and usage.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO contains digital images of every page of 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century.
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EIU City Data
Contains global price levels covering over 330 cost of living prices for 140 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present.
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EIU Country Data
Contains annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts covering 150 countries and 45 regions.
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EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts
Provides in-depth coverage of 60 key markets worldwide and includes more than 400 different variables per country to help gauge international demand for products and services.
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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
An online catalog of research findings and other shared resources, the
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was formed to encourage the sharing of data among researchers who emphasize the relationships between place, time and topic in the study of culture and history.
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Emerging Markets
Collection of news and financial information for over 65 selected countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America.
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Encyclopedia of Taiwan
The Encyclopedia of Taiwan covers the history, geography, local customs, politics, economics, sociology, laws and culture of the island from the Tang Dynasty to the Japanese occupation period.
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Ethnic News Watch
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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Europa World
Online version of the Europa World Year Book (published since 1975).
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Factiva
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business.
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FRANCIS
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).
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FreeTranslation
FreeTranslation provides free text and Web page translation from English to ten other languages including Russian and Chinese (and in reverse translation except for Chinese).
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GBV Online
GBV includes the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.
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Global Financial Data
Comprehensive economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series.
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Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress.
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Global Legal Information Network
GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.
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Global Trade Atlas
Full country import and export data for over 60 countries utilizing the Harmonized Schedule (HS).
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Grey Literature Archive for Development Researchers
Database of grey literature about how information and communication technologies are being used to solve social problems in developing countries.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
HLAS is a multilingual and multidisciplinary database offering scholarly evaluations of social sciences and humanities books, book chapters, conference papers, and articles published worldwide in over 2,500 sources in Latin American studies.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
HAPI provides authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
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Historical Abstracts
Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
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Human Rights Library
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than fourteen thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.
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IBFD Portal to Cross-Border Tax Information
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) portal to comparative tax research, international tax information and business practices.
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Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere (including the Arabs in Spain).
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Index to Hebrew Periodicals
The Index to Hebrew Periodicals includes only Hebrew material, except for Hebrew reviews of books in other languages.
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Indice de Hispania Sacra
Index to articles on church history and the history of the Catholic Church in Spain published in the periodical Hispania sacra (Madrid).
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Indice de la Revista de Indias
Index to the periodical Revista de Indias, published in Madrid since 1940.
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Indice de la revista Hispania
Index to the periodical Hispania, published in Madrid since 1940.
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Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Full text of articles and books concerning developing countries published or funded by OSTROM / IRD.
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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
IBZ contains over 2 million journal articles from 11,000 journals covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.
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International Country Risk Guide (select LOGIN to search)
The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) rating comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk: political, financial, and economic.
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International Data Base : World Statistics
The IDB provides quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.
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Jane's.Com (Select Client Area)
Provides full text access to Jane's research in defense, terrorism, market intelligence, national security and transportation.
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Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Contains hard data and full text on Japanese politics, government, economics and corporate behavior, as well as information on Japanese art, culture, and history.
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Korean Bibliography
Bibliography of approximately 4,800 records of books about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library of Congress.
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LIBROS EN VENTA
Temporarily Unavailable.
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Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies.
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MPI Data Hub
Provides access to the latest facts, stats, and maps on immigrants in the United States and Europe, and asylum seekers worldwide.
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Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
Contains descriptions of more than 400 collections accumulated in Britain by individuals and societies engaged in the overseas missionary movement between the 18th and 20th centuries.
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NATLEX
NATLEX contains over 55,000 records covering over 170 countries and territories on national labour, social security and related human rights legislation.
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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.
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Newspapers via ProQuest
Full text of 300+ United States and international news sources.
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PAIS
Chronicling global public policy and social issues, the Public Affairs Information Service provides access to over 3,600 periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
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PAIS Archive
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s.
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Philippine Bibliography
Compiled by the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, this classified bibliography consists of approximately 5000 entries for monographic works about the Philippines in all languages held by the Library.
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Polling the Nations
Compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 12,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United State and more than 70 other countries.
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ProQuest Asian Business
ProQuest Asian Business is an English-language database containing economic and business data, as well as analyses, current news, policies, statistics, and political developments for countries in Asia.
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RAMBI: Index to Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
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ReferenceUSA International Businesses
Reference USA OneSource International Business contains in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information.
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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Citations and abstracts of over 19,000 journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe.
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Russian Governmental Publications
Provides monitoring of the constantly evolving events in the Russian parliament, including stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft laws, vote results, official resolutions and decrees.
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Russian Military and Security Periodicals
UDB-MIL contains a broad range of military texts, including central military journals and regional military district newspapers in all major strategic areas.
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Russian National Bibliography
Provides bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps from 21,500 publishers.
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Russian Newspapers
Covers developments throughout Russia by providing the full-text files of the most influential national and regional Russian newspapers.
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SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Full-text access to a collection of scholarly journals in English,
Portuguese and/or Spanish, published in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica (Initiatives in development), Cuba, Mexico (Initiatives in development), Spain and Venezuela (Initiatives in development).
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Social Sciences and Humanities Russian Journals
Provides access to the contents of all lending Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities, the so called "thick journals.
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SourceOECD
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.
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Treaties and International Agreements (Select: Connect via IP Access)
TIARA contains accurate versions of over 11,500 treaties and international agreements.
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Ukrainian Publications
Covers a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine, its progress along the reform path, views and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, problems of ethnic relations, and tendencies in the development of the armed forces.
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UN Comtrade
The United Nations Commodity Statistics Trade Database provides data for over 140 reporting countries, in some cases, spanning the last 40 years.
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Vascoda
Vascoda is a German gateway for scientific and scholarly information.
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WAO : World Affairs Online
World Affairs Online is one of the largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing over 665,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters, hearings, and grey literature.
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World Legal Information Institute Databases
The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) provides access to worldwide law from countries in six continents.
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World News Connection
Full-text summaries and translations of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from the Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS).
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World of Maps
Guide to locating maps, spacial data and GIS on the Internet.
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Worldwide NGO Directory
Search for NGOs (institutions focusing on international development that are entirely or primarily independent of government) by region, then by country.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
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Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Provides information, in the form of text, tables, and charts, about the various types of foreign nationals who are inspected, naturalized, apprehended, or removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946-2005
The yearbook covers an extensive array of political and security questions; human rights concerns; economic and social topics; legal issues; institutional, administrative and budgetary matters; and the activities of intergovernmental organizations related to the UN.
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Yearbook Online
Provides directory information for individuals, international organizations, and agencies, as well as policy overviews.
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