These reports are translations into English of international radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and magazines and newspapers. The work of collecting and translating reports is done by the offices of the United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).
Reports cover military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. More than 50 languages, from Arabic to Swahili, have been translated into English.
FBIS is organized into 8 parts:
- Middle East and [North] Africa (MEA), 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia (NES), 1987-1996
- South Asia (SAS), 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 1974-1980 and (AFR), 1987-1996
- China (CHI), 1974-1996
- Asia and the Pacific (APA), 1974-1987; East Asia (EAS), 1987-1996
- Latin America (LAT and LAM), 1974-1996
- Eastern Europe (EEU), 1974-1996
- Soviet Union/Central Eurasia (SOV), 1974-1996
- Western Europe (WEU), 1974-1996
External debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data projected for another 10 years. GDF Online also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).
Over 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from immigrants to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included as are thousands of political cartoons.
The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. Some audio files are included, as are facsimile images showing pages of the immigrants' scrapbooks.
