Country Information: Specialized Resources
- Country Commerce, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Reports on the operating environment in 55 countries, (political, economic, and market conditions). From the opening screen, choose "Country Commerce" from the Reports drop-down box.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowProvides access to books, papers, and data services from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- OECD's "The Ocean Economy in 2030"OECD (2016), The Ocean Economy in 2030, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264251724-en.
- OECD iLibrary: Tutorials on YouTube
Tutorials on YouTube
The OECD's YouTube tutorials offer tips on navigating OECD iLibrary, and provides several videos presenting facts taken from the content of the iLibrary.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowContains current global business and financial information on over 15,000 domestic and international public companies. It includes access to SEC filings ("EDGAR"), six years of annual reports, and "portraits," which provide detailed financial data in a cleanly designed tabular format.
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Economic and Political Overviews of Countries
- Europa World This link opens in a new windowA reference database of political and economic information about 250+ countries and territories.
Euromonitor International Passport
The Economies tab in Euromonitor's Passport has the option "Industrial." For select countries, this will provide a report on every sector of the economy.
Within the same "Economies" section, Euromonitor also develops Business Dynamics reports of different geographies. Examining regulatory, financial, infrastructure and other categories, these reports provide focused information regarding the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to doing business in a given country.
- Euromonitor International: Passport
Produced by Euromonitor, Passport provides international market research. It includes country and consumer profiles; reports on subsets of industries throughout the world; and complete industrial profiles for China, Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA, (and eventually Japan), analyzed by sector in accordance with the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) code. See the guide "Country Information in Euromonitor's Passport." - Euromonitor Blog: Analyst InsightsRead interesting posts from the analysts at Euromonitor on industries, companies, international markets, and business trends.
Country Reports from International Organizations
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International Organization
- U.S. Department of StateSee the 'Countries and Regions' tab.
- World Bank Group: Doing Business Project"The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level."
- World Bank Group: Enterprise SurveysSee the drop down box: "Explore Survey Data."