Below are useful links Business and Economics:

BBC News site -very useful for up to date business news and for following the progress of a particular news story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/

Covers Economics and Business at A level - Revision notes etc plus a daily economics blog from the editor.

http://www.tutor2u.net

Site dedicated to students and teachers of Economics and Business.

http://bized.ac.uk

Broad based educational site created by the Welsh Assembly.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/index-new.htm

Gives access to information about  companies quoted on the Stock Exchange, share price records and company information. Click on FTSE100 on the menu bar for a list of the FTSE 100 top companies (ranked by market value).

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/

Useful for A level economics, in particular for the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee (published on the second Wed after the meeting) and the  Inflation Report.

http://bankofengland.co.uk/

Government department which manages the taxation and expenditure of the UK Government. This is the most powerful department in government run by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/

Royal Bank of Scotland. Look for the heading “RBS and the economy” - lots of good information including a weekly one page briefing by their Chief Economist.

http://www.rbs.co.uk/

News Paper articles. Archive search gives articles from the last couple of years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Economist, lots of information and comments on a weekly basis on politics, economics and business worldwide.

http://www.economist.com/index.html

Useful profiles of countries from the US Central Intelligence Agency

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Excellent on development issues. Christian Aid is a leading campaigner for development and often has a critical view of the performance of western governments

http://www.christian-aid.org/

The UN Human Development Report. Published annually. Has a huge statistical database on Human Development Indicators (this comes after the main chapters in the report) very useful for data on GDP per head, Gini coefficients, data on health, education etc.

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/

This is the website of the Department for International Development (DfID) It contains details of the UK government’s development programme.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

The website of the New Economics Foundation. In their own words this independent foundation “aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership and put people and the planet first. “

http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A research organisation representing 30 member countries, mainly European, North America, Australia, Japan and Korea. Useful source of data and surveys of the state of the economies of its members.

http://www.oecd.org/home/

World Trade Organisation. Main aim is to encourage free and fair international trade. Main area of work  is to get countries to reduce/remove barriers to trade.

http://www.wto.org/

International Monetary Fund. Lends money to countries with balance of payments problems/payment difficulties. Aim is to encourage stability and growth of international trade.

http://www.imf.org/