Entrepreneurship and New Ventures

MarketLine (Formerly Datamonitor) Company Profiles provide profiles on companies worldwide and are available through the Business Source Complete database. Each company profile includes a business description, company history, key employees, major products and services and top competitors. Many of the profiles contain a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis. To locate a company profile, browse the alphabetical list of company profiles or type the company name into the “Browse For” search box and click on the Browse button.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/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.

http://taxsummaries.pwc.com/uk/taxsummaries/wwts.nsf/ID/PPAA-85RDKF
Summary of basic information about corporate and individual taxes in over 150 countries worldwide.

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.