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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
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Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands - Sales and Marketing by
How do you break the ice in the UAE? When do you present a contract in China? How close should you stand to a South Korean? Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: Sales and Marketing is an informative, entertaining guide that shows you what to do--and what to avoid--in any given sales or marketing situation, from Argentina to South Africa. It provides the expert knowledge you need to gather data in diverse cultures, properly present your products, and close deals around the world.
Call Number: REF HF5389 .M674 2012Publication Date: 2011
Kiss, bow, or shake hands : Guide to doing business in more than 60 countriesCall Number: REF HF5389 .M67 2006
The Statesman's Yearbook: the Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World, 2018Call Number: REF JA51 .S7 2018ISBN: 9781137508522Publication Date: 2018Now in its 154th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook covers political, economic, social and cultural information on every country in the world.
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."