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International country information

In addition to the sites recommended in your syllabus, try one of the following:

Country Commercial Guides Written by U.S. Embassy trade experts worldwide….. An excellent starting point for everything you need to know about exporting and doing business overseas detailing market overviews, political environment, trade regulations, and more.
Doing Business Guides Prepared by UHY’s member firms, each ‘Doing Business’ guide covers country specific business information, including an overview of the country’s political and business environment; investment climate; foreign investment; setting up a business; labor issues; taxation, accounting, and more. They are written in a clear and straightforward manner, making these particularly good sources if you want a basic understanding of a country’s political, business, and economic system. Issues surrounding tax and accounting are strongly emphasized. UHY is a network of independent accounting and consulting firms with offices in over 270 major business centres in 86 countries.

In addition, you will find helpful economic information from our databases.

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Find articles focused on business, finance and economics. Also features company profiles.
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Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Searches three ABI-INFORM databases: Dateline, Global, and Trade and Industry. Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Search nearly 8,000 publications worldwide, almost 80% available in full text. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective from 1923-present. Full text coverage of the Wall Street Journal is also included from 1984-present.

In addition to the sites already listed, ABI/Inform Collection features even more access to economic conditions worldwide.

1. Start at the ABI/Inform Advanced Search page. (Use link provided above)

2. From the Advanced Search screen, slide to the top left and select the 3-bar menu.

3. Select BROWSE

3. Slide down to Country Reports.
4. See the last two listings, Oxford Economics By Country Industry Forecast and Oxford Economics Country Economic Forecast.

Business Searching Interface This link opens in a new window This is an enhanced interface for Business Source Premier which allows users direct access to screens for browsing Company or Industry Profiles and Country or Market Research Reports.
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In addition, the following source types are included: academic journals, SWOT analyses, trade publications, industry profiles, company profiles, market research reports and product reviews.

Start at the home page.
Select: Country Reports.

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A tabbed page opens.
Select the Country tab.
Once you select the country you need, you can filter further by entering a specific topic in the: Browse for box.

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International Industry information

See the guide titled International Industry Reports

In addition, see the following site for a tool that provides users an opportunity to gather many different sources of data into one document.

Vizala Combines economic, societal, and market data from many different sources and organizes the data for specific areas of interest. Vizala also provides tools that allows users to filter, sort, save, share, and/or export any view of data.