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Business Monitor, EMIS Intelligence, EIU, and Global Insight have ready reviews of country political and economic developments, including investment environments and industries. Use Investext for quality brokerage house reports on countries, industries, and companies. The eLibrary contains World Bank research and policy publications. The IMF "Country Reports" include detailed reviews of economic policy issues in certain member nations. Other international agencies covering Latin America also offer websites with member country data and economic surveys.
The PDF reports in Investext can save considerable time previously spent researching global firms and industries via scattered press sources. In fact, they contain much information that is not available to us in any other way.
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Europa World PlusEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of countries and global regions. Contact info for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. Access limited to 1 user at a time. Try again later if refused.
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Key Sites
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Business Monitor OnlineBusiness Monitor International (BMI) is a leading, independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings, and forecasts covering 175 countries and 22 industry sectors. Includes lengthy country and industry reports, financial markets and commodities coverage, plus newsletters and daily alerts.
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EIU.comPortal to our subscribed Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) global country publications. Strong for current political and economic news and analysis, with data, forecasts, and business and investment profiles. See also ViewsWire for selected EIU content covering Americas and Asia. We also license Economist magazine online.
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EMIS Intelligence (formerly ISI Emerging Markets)Provides economic studies, company & industry reports, country risk, statistics and political news on emerging market countries. Covers public & private companies & global industry reports. Includes interactive data analysis tools & news alerts. Excellent China coverage.
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Europa World PlusEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of countries and global regions. Contact info for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. Access limited to 1 user at a time. Try again later if refused.
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Global InsightCountry reports, risk ratings, industry analysis, daily alerts, and data. Includes country reports on automotive, telecom, and health/pharmaceutical sectors.
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Human Development Report: MexicoThis United Nations site includes interactive tools, reports and data about human development (health, education, security, environment, mobility and communication), disability, gender inequality, poverty, society, & youth.
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Thomson ONE/InvestextCompany and industry investment reports from more than 1,400 brokerage houses and research firms worldwide. Thomson ONE platform requires Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
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The MacroDataGuideThe MacroDataGuide is a tool that has been especially developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services to save researchers and students time and energy in their search for high quality social science macro data. While the main distinction is most often drawn between micro and macro data, the term 'meso data' is also sometimes used. Meso data generally refers to data on collective and cooperative actors such as commercial companies, organizations or political parties.
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OECD iLibraryContains 200,000+ monthly, quarterly, and annual time series (from 1960) for OECD member countries, covering a range of social and economic phenomena.
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Political Handbook of the WorldDetailed country political profiles include quick facts and recent history. Along with Europa and EIU, a great starting place for reading about a country.
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Political Risk YearbookGreat for background reading on threats to economic growth and governance issues.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies: RegionsCSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization that provides worldwide strategic insights and policy analysis.
International Organizations
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Country Reports (International Monetary Fund)Staff consultations and economic policy reviews. For related working papers, articles, press releases, and transcripts see Country Information page.
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Regional Economic Outlook (International Monetary Fund)These reports discuss recent economic developments and prospects for countries in various regions (Europe, Western Hemisphere, Middle East and Central Asia, Asia and Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa). They also address economic policy developments that have affected economic performance in the regions and discuss key challenges faced by policymakers. Data tables included.
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World Bank Documents & ReportsMore than 65,000 project and research publications.
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World Bank eLibraryOur subscriber access to 5,000 books, journal articles, and working papers.