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  • C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library
    C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library
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Articles

  • Asia Studies

    Asia Studies brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 55 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
    Covers a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
  • ISI Emerging Markets
    Aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles on more than 80 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service.
  • ProQuest Asian Business
    Offers comprehensive information on Asian business, economics, politics, and culture. Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.
  • ProQuest European Business

    Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.

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Encyclopedias

  • Global Competitiveness Report - World Economic Forum

    The Global Competitiveness Report contains a detailed profile for 133 economies, providing a comprehensive summary of the overall position in the rankings as well as the most prominent competitive advantages and disadvantages of each. Also included is an extensive section of data tables with global rankings for over 110 indicators. The Report is published annually by the World Economic Forum and is available for previous years and in various formats.

  • IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook
    IMD World Competitiveness  Yearbook  (WCY) is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness  of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.
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Reports

  • Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU
    Information for countries around the world with information on political, social and economic conditions.
  • Political Risk Yearbook
    Provides risk analysis for the political, financial and economic situation in all countries.
  • OECD iLibrary

    OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.

  • EBSCO Business Source Complete

    Country reports by CountryWatch Incorporated, IHS Global Insight Inc., ICON Group. To access reports, click Country Reports on the right hand side of EBSCO's main site.

  • Mergent Online

    Offers basic and comprehensive country reports with history, people, government, economic, trade, and industrial information for over 100 countries. To access, on Mergent's main site in the bottom right hand corner choose a country from the Country Profile dropdown menu.

  • DataMonitor 360

    Provides profiles of companies, industries and countries. Covers industries ranging from Automotive to Technology providing  overviews, competition, leading companies, segmentation, forecasts information, and more.

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Statistics and Data

  • OECD Statistics

    Includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

  • Passport GMID

    GMID gives you access to international market and business information sources, economic and marketing statistics with country profiles and trend analyses.

  • International Monetary Fund - eLibrary Data

    Contains current data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions (including balance of payments and international investment position), government finance, and national accounts.

  • World Bank e-Library

    World Bank e-Library is the electronic portal to the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports, and other documents

  • World Bank - Data

    Databases and reports covering external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.

  • Economist Intelligence Unit - Country Reports

    Provides GDP, population, income, governement accounts and more for nearly 200 countries.

  • World Bank - World Development Indicators

    Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

  • Europa World Plus
    Provides data on area, population, health, welfare, agriculture, industy, finance, external trade and education for more than 200 countries. Also available: country data comparison.
  • China Data Online
    Census, economic, social, and historical data is provided by the China Data Center with authorization by the National Bureau of Statistics.
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