Research

All those doing assignment and dissertation on economics and/or fincance, here are some useful links that i think will be of great help:
1. for research and articles: http://ideas.repec.org/
2. for worldwide data: devdata.worldbank.org/data-query
3. for data: http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt62/pwt62_form.php

Hope that helps