Economic Issues is the IMF's attempt to reach an audience of nonspecialists. The August 2000 issue consists of the article "Promoting Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning What Works."

The Economic and Social Department of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (originally reviewed in the October 25, 1996 Scout Report), an internationally recognized source for information on the world food situation, has expanded its GIEWS site. The site continues to feature the FAO's important bimonthlies, Food Outlook and Foodcrops and Shortages, but has also added a number of...