This guide is designed to provide you with the best library resources for International Business & Country Information.
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Balance of Payments and International Investment Position StatisticsIncludes balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) data of individual countries, jurisdictions, and other reporting entities, and regional and world totals for major components of the balance of payments. Balance of payments data are available for over 200 economies and international investment position data are available for over 100 economies. Data available starting in 2005 for many IMF members. Varies by economy.
Business Source CompleteProvides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses. Sources covered by this database include Economist Intelligence Unit country reports.
Direction of Trade StatisticsTime series data from 1980-present detailing the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. Includes total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group levels. The database contains over 100,000 time series covering more than 180 countries and areas.
Economist Intelligence Unit: Country ReportsEach 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.
IMF eLibrary DataProvides access to Direction of Trade Statistics, International Financial Statistics, etc.
International Financial StatisticsInternational Financial Statistics (IFS) from the International Monetary Fund includes data on exchange rates, international interest rates, prices, production, and international transactions (including balance of payments), as well as individual country government, finance, and national account data for individual countries.
OECD iLibraryOECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It replaced SourceOECD in July 2010. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
Statistical Abstracts of the WorldThe Statistical Abstracts of the World is a growing collection of the statistical abstracts from many countries. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations are included.
World Development Indicators (WDI)World Development Indicators (WDI) contains statistics from over 200 countries including social, economic and financial indicators.
Yearbook of International OrganizationsThe Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed descriptions of international organizations, and includes relationships and cross-links with other listed organizations. In addition, biographical information is provided on principal officers, as well as bibliographical information on the organization's main publications and information services. Statistics on international organizations are summed up in separate charts, tables and other visual representations.