03 May 2003

NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks
Center for Policy Research Information, The National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "The National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), an independent policy research body in Japan publishes annually NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks. The 2002 version is also available on the web at http://www.nira.go.jp or directly at [the URL below]. The directory is updated every three years. - myh."
Self-description: "NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks provides a systematic introduction [think tanks' Organizational Status, Background/Scope, Areas of Research, Geographic Focus, Funding Sources, Staff, Executive Officers, Chief Researchers, Research Findings, Periodicals - ed.] to the world's most prominent and innovative public policy research institutes, better known as think tanks. This completely revised edition contains up-to-date information available on 320 specially selected think tanks from 77 countries and regions. It also provides a convenient index of institutes by English names, acronyms and non-English names. This directory is an unusually detailed collection of carefully compiled information on public policy research institutes worldwide. [...] Think tanks are one of the main policy actors in democratic societies. Think tanks could be regarded as the intellectual and knowledge-based 'soft infrastructure' of the policy community, assuring a pluralistic, open and accountable process of policy analysis, research, decision-making and evaluation."
Site contents: * Introduction; * Think Tanks in this Directory; * User's Guide; * Index by English name (A-Z); * Index by Country (Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, China [incl. Hong Kong], Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Yugoslavia.
URL http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/index.html#1
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan[use"@"]phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30