Country Commercial Guides (CCG’s) are prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies, and they use economic, political and market analysis to give an in-depth look at the commercial environment in various countries. There’s a wealth of information here.
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“Statement of World Bank Group on Discontinuing Doing Business Report
After data irregularities on Doing Business 2018 and 2020 were reported internally in June 2020, World Bank management paused the next Doing Business report and initiated a series of reviews and audits of the report and its methodology. Read the full statement released by the World Bank Group on the Doing Business report.”
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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that produes an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries. The data collected is ‘harmonized’ by a central team of experts, guaranteeing its quality and facilitating cross-national comparisons.
The program has three main objectives:
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Web site from Michigan State University that is a portal site for all kinds of trade, export, and country information.
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(source Davis Library)
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International Debt Statistics presents external debt and financial flow data for the 120 economies that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2012, with contractual obligations data projected for another 10 years. International Debt Statistics also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding). (Source: Davis Library)
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See ProQuest Business Market Research Collection
Reports analyzing economic and political developments in more than 110 individual countries, regions and worldwide.
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A great source for analysis and statistics on industries, markets, and countries from Euromonitor contains historical data starting in 1995 and 5 years of forecasts of market size (units and value) data for 330 consumer products in many countries.
Euromonitor Passport also contains
Historical and forecast economic, demographic and marketing statistics from 1977 to 2020.
Historic and forecasts of consumer lifestyle statistics including disposable income, consumer expenditure trends, eating and drinking habits, home ownership statistics and health data for 71 countries.
Key political and economic indicators for 205 countries.
More than 4,500 industry and market reports on global and country levels.
Special Note: Because of our license agreement, you will be asked for your UNC Onyen and password every time you use GMID, both on and off campus.
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Detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions from trade journals and scholarly journals on throughout Asia, Austraila and Europe.
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Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources:
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This publication of the World Bank contains more than 1400 indicators. The indicators cover a wide range of social, economic and demographic areas including major economic indicators, information on population, health, gender, poverty, natural resources, financial matters, environmental variables, and other topics related to economic and social development. More than 250 goegraphic areas are covered. The geographic areas can be individual countries or groups of countries (East Asia, High Income, OECD, Sub-Saharan Africa, and 40 other groupings).
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