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About the Country Finances and Markets page
This page of the BUS 301 research guide provides resources useful for gathering the information you need to create an effective international marketing plan. After reviewing the guide, you should be able to locate and access targeted information on any country.
Country Trade Overviews
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new windowComprehensive and regularly updated reports on every country.
- Country Commercial GuidesFree market research reports, from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowContains company and industry research, company data, annual reports and industry reports.
- Business Enabling Environment (World Bank)Following the discontinuation of the Doing Business reports, the World Bank is providing links to relevant information and data while re-evaluating its approach.
- globalEDGEInternational business and trade information on over 200 countries, the 50 U.S. states, as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs. Created by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
- Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new windowA country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. Global Road Warrior consists of 175 Country Guides of 119 topics each.
- CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new windowProvides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Export Portals
- Export.govU.S. government resources for exporters, including forms, financing, logistics, and licensing, located in the "Solutions" section.
Useful Tools
Country Data
- World Bank CountriesEconomic overviews and feature stories
- World Bank DataInternational indicators such as infrastructure and trade
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) DataFind, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications …
- IMF World Economic OutlookEconomic forecasts from the International Monetary Fund
- UN DataThe numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
- Sage Data [formerly Data Planet] This link opens in a new windowContains more than 35 billion data points from 4.9 billion datasets sourced from more than 70 source organizations. There are billions of charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use.
- Our World in DataIncludes data in CSV format sourced from research on a variety of key topics. A collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford, and the non-profit Global Change Data Lab, with the tagline "research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems."