Currency Data & Intelligence, Inc.Private and nongovernmental organizations
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Currency Data & Intelligence, Inc.
Currency Data & Intelligence, Inc. is a research and publishing firm that produces currency-related products and undertakes research for international agencies and universities worldwide. Its flagship product, the World Currency Yearbook, is the most comprehensive source of information on currency. It includes official and unofficial exchange rates and discussions of economic, social, and political issues that bear on the value of currencies in world markets. A second publication, the monthly newsletter Global Currency Report, covers devaluations and other critical developments in exchange rate restrictions and valuation and provides parallel market exchange rates.
For information contact Currency Data & Intelligence, Inc., 328 Flatbush Avenue, Suite 344, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238, U.S.A.; telephone: (718) 230 7176; fax: (718) 230 1992; email: Curncydata@AOL.com.
Euromoney Publications PLC provides a wide range of financial, legal, and general business information. The monthly Euromoney magazine includes a semiannual rating of country creditworthiness.
For information contact Euromoney Publications PLC, Nestor House, Playhouse Yard, London EC4V 5EX, U.K.; telephone: (44 171) 779 8999; fax: (44 171) 779 8617; Website: http://www.euromoney.com.
Institutional Investor magazine is published monthly by Institutional Investor, Inc., which develops country-by-country credit ratings every six months based on information provided by leading international banks.
For information contact Institutional Investor, Inc., 488 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A.; telephone: (212) 224 3300.
The International Road Federation (IRF) is a not-for-profit, nonpolitical service organization representing the views and interests of all road-related industries across the world. The IRF has more than 600 corporate and institutional members in approximately 100 countries around the world—companies, associations, research institutes, and administrations concerned with modernizing and developing road infrastructure. To encourage better road and transport systems worldwide, the IRF assists in the transfer and application of technology and management practices that will produce maximum economic and social returns from national road investments, through its consultative status with the United Nations and the OECD and its advisory capacity with the European Union.
The IRF publishes World Road Statistics.
For information contact International Road Federation, 63 rue de Lausanne, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland; telephone: (41 22) 731 71 50; fax: (41 22) 731 71 58; email: IRD@dial.eunet.ch; Website: http://www.eunet.ch/Customers/irf.
Moody’s Investors Service is a global credit analysis and financial opinion firm. It provides the international investment community with globally consistent credit ratings on debt and other securities issued by North American state and regional government entities, by corporations worldwide, and by some sovereign issuers. It also publishes extensive financial data in both print and electronic form. Clients of Moody’s Investors Service include investment banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, public utilities, research libraries, manufacturers, and government agencies and departments.
Moody’s publishes Sovereign, Subnational and Sovereign-Guaranteed Issuers.
For information contact Moody’s Investors Service, 99 Church Street, New York, N.Y. 10007, U.S.A. Website: http://www.moodys.com.
Political Risk Services is a global leader in political and economic risk forecasting and market analysis and has served international companies large and small for nearly 20 years. The data it contributed to this year’s World Development Indicators come from the International Country Risk Guide, a monthly publication that monitors and rates political, financial, and economic risk in 130 countries. The guide’s data series and commitment to independent and unbiased analysis make it the standard for any organization practicing effective risk management.
For information contact Political Risk Services, 6320 Fly Road, Suite 102, P.O. Box 248, East Syracuse, N.Y. 13057, U.S.A.; telephone: (315) 431 0511; fax: (315) 431 0200; email: custserv@polrisk.com.
Price Waterhouse is one of the world’s largest international organizations of accountants and consultants. Founded in 1849, it now consists of a network of 27 individual practice firms in 119 countries and territories. Staffed with knowledgeable professionals committed to client service, it is uniquely equipped to advise on matters relating to international operations, not only in individual countries but also on a regional or global basis.
For information contact Price Waterhouse World Firm Services BV, Inc., 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020, U.S.A.; telephone: (212) 819 5000; fax: (212) 790 6620; telex: 362196.
Standard and Poor’s Rating Services
Standard and Poor’s Sovereign Ratings provides issuer and local and foreign currency debt ratings for sovereign governments and for sovereign-supported and supranational issuers worldwide. Standard & Poor’s Rating Services monitors the credit quality of $1.5 trillion worth of bonds and other financial instruments and offers investors global coverage of debt issuers. Standard & Poor’s also has ratings on commercial paper, mutual funds, and the financial condition of insurance companies worldwide.
For information contact The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Executive Offices, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020, U.S.A.; subscriber services: (212) 208 1146; Website: http://www.ratings.standardpoor.com.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) provides information services on the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s living resources and helps others to develop information systems of their own. It works in close collaboration with a wide range of organizations and people to increase access to the information necessary for wise management of the world’s living resources. Committed to the principle of data exchange with other centers and noncommercial users, the WCMC, whenever possible, places the data it manages in the public domain.
For information contact World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, U.K.; telephone: (44 12) 23 27 73 14; fax: (44 12) 23 27 71 36; Website: http://www.wcmc.org.uk.
The World Resources Institute is an independent center for policy research and technical assistance on global environmental and development issues. Because people are inspired by ideas, empowered by knowledge, and moved to change by greater understanding, the institute provides— and helps other institutions provide—objective information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development. The institute’s current areas of work include trade, forests, energy, economics, technology, biodiversity, human health, climate change, sustainable agriculture, resource and environmental information, and national strategies for environmental and resource management.
For information contact World Resources Institute, 1709 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006, U.S.A.; telephone: (202) 638 6300; fax: (202) 638 0036; telex 64414 WRIWASH; Website: http://www.wri.org.
