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Search business journals, trade magazines, company and industry profiles, and market research. (Some full-text).
Reports on 192 countries with facts about political, economic, and social conditions, plus maps and statistics. (Full-text).
Information about the geography, people, government, economy, and military of each nation. (Full-text).
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Reports cover prisons, police, trials, civil liberties, women, minorities, worker rights, etc. (Full-text).
Department of State Background Notes
Facts about the land, people, history, government, politics, and economy of each nation. (Full-text).
Web sites for international business education and research. (Internet links).
A guide to business conditions and cultures in countries around the world. (Full-text).
Information Technology Landscape in Nations Around the World
Country reports on communications infrastructure. (Full-text).
International Labour Organization
View and download labor statistics for over 200 countries and territories from this database. (Full-text).
International Market Research Library
Investment opportunities for U.S. companies by country, industry, or region. (Full-text).
MarketLine Business Information Center
Reports on companies and industries worldwide, plus business news by country. (Full-text).
An archive of the newspaper from 1984 to present. (Full-text).
Data on economic, environmental, and social indicators for individual countries from 1960 to present. (Full-text).
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Accounting, tax management, and auditing trade publications and journals,
plus standards from IFAC. Includes non-US accounting and tax publications. (Some full-text).
Note: U.S. GAAP standards are now available in the Accounting Standards Codification.
Business & Human Rights Resource Center
Free Web site with news and documents about corporate human rights practices. (Full-text).
Doing Business : Benchmarking Business Regulations
Objective measures of government regulation in countries worldwide. (Full-text).
Profiles of 193 countries and their cities. (Full-text).
Academic journals in management, marketing, human resources, engineering, criminal justice, and other fields. (Full-text).
Links to resources on "business culture, customs and etiquette" with an international focus. (Internet links).
FITA International Trade Web Resources
Links on all aspects of international trade. (Internet links).
Analysis of labor trends in selected countries. (Full-text).
Produced by the World Bank, GEM provides daily updates of global economic developments.
Ranks nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace. Look for your country under “Regional Split” or “Comparison” in the left column. (Full-text).
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Basic information from specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks. (Full-text).
Library of Congress Country Studies
Reports on the society, economy, government, and security of each country. (Full-text).
Country statistics in 30 topical categories. (Full-text).
National and state data on merchandise exports, imports, and trade balances. (Full-text).
Country overviews and news with links to documents on government economic development plans. (Full-text).
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