Business Research Librarian
Betty Garrison
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Country Profiles and Forecasts
- Passport This link opens in a new windowSearch for: consumer overview AND your country. Passport provides a complete overview of the consumers living in a country.
- Salem Press Online This link opens in a new windowReference ebooks in the humanities, social sciences and contemporary issues; contains Countries, Peoples and Cultures
- CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new windowCIAO is the world's largest full-text online resource for political science, diplomatic history, international law and business, policy formation, and country analysis.
- OECD Better Life IndexThis Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.
Doing Business Internationally
- Country Commercial GuidesMarket conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries prepared by trade and industry experts at U.S. embassies worldwide.
- Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowConduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more. Coverage 1986- current.
- CIA World FactbookU.S. government profiles of countries and territories around the world.
- Doing Business from the World BankDoing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations.
- EIU Views WireCountry profiles that include political stability, elections, international relations, policy trends, economic growth, inflation, exchange rates and external competitiveness.
- UndataCountry economic profiles.
Business Etiquette Around the World
Financial Times
Elon University has a subscription to Financial Times, one of the leading international financial daily newspapers.
Financial Times includes:
- Unlimited FT article access
- Topics including energy, finance, health care, industrial products/services, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, apparel, luxury goods, textiles.
Sections included are: World, U.S., Companies, Tech, Markets, Opinion, Work & Careers, Life & Arts
- Financial Times This link opens in a new windowFT content is produced each day by over 500 journalists reporting from the world's political and commercial nerve centers. It provides an authoritative and impartial picture of international trade, finance, the economy and politics.