Pro. J. D. Agarwal ,Indian instute of finance has been ranked 27th world wide, (based on ratings) by American Assiociation (Busines and Economic Data Link) in the category of finance for maintaining Financial database from amongest 79 financial institution ranked for compiling Financial Data files World Over. It has also been ranked 40th from among 148 organisations of all categories of Database (in Micronoeconomic, Labour and General Micro Economic & Finance)at the world level.

The India Institute of Finance , which has emerged as the leading institute of Finance in the country is maintaining financial data base on different aspects of selected economic indicators, money and banking, international finance, international trade and industry to help researchers and policy marks.

Some of the other organisation included in ranking are J P Morgan, Ohio state's Virtual Finance Library , Korea Stock Exchange, NBER, CSRP, Journal of Finance , Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, Federal Reserve Bank at Chicago, University of Mayland Economic data library. Harvard-MIT Data Center , Bank of England , world Bank US Treasury, Bank of Canada etc.

B & k datalinks to economic and financial data sources of interest to econimic and business satatisticians. This project , B & K Datalinks, sponsored by the Business and Economic (B & E) Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA Provides users with a comprehensive set of links to data sites on the web along with a user based assessment of the Quality of each site.

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