International Business
- MarketLine Company Profiles This link opens in a new window MarketLine (formerly Datamonitor) Company Profiles provide profiles of companies worldwide. Each profile includes a business description, company history, key employees, major products/services and competitors. Many of the profiles contain a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis. To locate company profile, browse alphabetical list of company profiles or type company name into Browse For search box and click on Browse button. Available through Business Source Complete.
- Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Reports This link opens in a new window Each country page in the EIU database provides forecast updates and featured analysis on economic and political events as well as content pertaining to market opportunities, government regulations and the financial services sector.
See also Country Commerce and Country Finance reports in Economist Intelligence Unit.
- World Bank Investment Climate
A World Bank website containing information on the investment climate in developing countries. The site provides access to relevant data portals including Doing Business (regulations and conditions for establishing and conducting business in 181 countries,) Investing Across Borders Indicators, Business Environment Snapshots, Investment Climate Assessments, and Enterprise Surveys. Access is also provided to project information and results stories that convey impacts of investment climate reform.
- PwC’s Worldwide Tax Summaries Online
Summary of basic information about corporate and individual taxes in over 150 countries worldwide.
- Doing Business; Measuring Business Regulations
A World Bank Group publication annual report that measures regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.
- Fitch Solutions Country Industry Reports This link opens in a new window
(2018-present) International coverage of 22 industries and 35 commodities. Industry reports include: industry forecast, SWOT analysis, risk/reward indices, industry trends and top competitors. In-depth reports are released quarterly.
For reports from before 2018, see Business Monitor International.
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