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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Economic, 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.
Business 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.
Portal 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.
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.
Economic, 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.
Country reports, risk ratings, industry analysis, daily alerts, and data. Includes country reports on automotive, telecom, and health/pharmaceutical sectors.
This 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.
Company and industry investment reports from more than 1,400 brokerage houses and research firms worldwide. Thomson ONE platform requires Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
The 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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CULTURE
Cultural activities and participation
Cultural and national identity
Leisure, tourism and sport
DEMOGRAPHY
Demographic composition
Fertility
Migration
Morbidity and mortality
ECONOMICS
Financial statistics
Government statistics
Household economy
National accounts
EDUCATION
Basic skills education
Compulsory and pre-school education
Education finance
Life-long/continuing education
Post-compulsory education
Teaching profession
Vocational education
HEALTH
Health care and medical treatment
Nutrition
Accidents and injuries
Childbearing, family planning and abortion
Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking
General health
Health finance
Physical fitness and exercise
Specific diseases and medical conditions
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
Information society (including internet use)
Language
Mass media
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
(In-job) Training
Employment and unemployment
Labour costs
Labour relations and labour conflict
Retirement
Working conditions
LAW, CRIME AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
Corruption
Crime
Law enforcement
Legal systems
Legislation
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Environmental degradation/pollution and environmental protection
Natural resources and energy
Plant and animal distribution
Surface area and natural landscapes
POLITICS
Elections and political parties
International politics and organisations
Mass political behaviour, attitudes/opinion
Political ideology
Political system (incl. government, political regimes and organisations)
Conflict, security and peace
Human rights
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Science and technology
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS
Social welfare systems
Specific social services: use and provision
SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Children
Elderly
Equality and inequality
Family life and marriage
Gender and gender roles
Housing
Minorities
Religion and values
Social and occupational mobility
Social behaviour and attitudes
Social conditions and indicators
Social exclusion
Youth
TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS
Agricultural, forestry and rural industry
Business and industry
Trade
TRANSPORT, TRAVEL AND MOBILITY
Transport, travel and mobility
Detailed country political profiles include quick facts and recent history. Along with Europa and EIU, a great starting place for reading about a country.
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.
