• Databases DP

Academic Universe: Reference: Country Profiles

Britannica Online: The World

Viewswire

• Websites

Library of Congress Country Studies
Formerly called Area Handbooks. Studies on over 100 countries, describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

The World Factbook
Compiled by the CIA every year, The World Factbook web page provides basic geographic, socio-economic, and economic data for every country in the world. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

• Reference Works

Foreign Government Resources on the Web http://henry.ugl.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/foreign.html

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
A CIA Publication. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html

Governments on the World Wide Web.
A comprehensive list of sites from some 200 countries maintained by Gunnar Anzinger in German and English. It includes parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, and city councils.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/

World Constitutions and International Treaties.
Constitutions of some 137 countries. The second part of the site includes a subject list of international treaty resources available on the Internet. http://library.tamu.edu/govdocs/workshop/index.html.

National publications and statistical yearbooks, current statistics and Internet sites
List of links to national statistical sites compiled by the UN Statistics Division. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/refs3.htm

Global Newsbank
Full text of international news sources including material from wire services, broadcasts, transcripts, newspapers, and periodicals

Academic Universe: News

Viewswire

Foreign Broadcast Information Service
An index to microfiches of translated transcripts of foreign news broadcasts
1991-1996. Full Text continued on local use CD-ROM.

Washington Post World http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/front.htm

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World Development Indicators
Economic and social indicators across 148+ national economies
Provided via The World Bank

EconLit
PAIS
Social Science Abstracts etc

Penn World Tables
The Penn World Tables web page provides high quality statistical information on almost every country. Data is 1992-1994, depending on the country, the database is particularly valuable for it historical depth. Another value is the quality and comparability of the data across countries. .http://www.nber.org/pwt56.html

World and Non-U.S. Data (from Resources for Economists on the Internet)
A very useful "Meta site" with many links to statistical data and international organizations http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/EconFAQ/World/index.html

• Databases DP

TableBase-- concept terms such as "demographics" combined with desired geographic terms can generate difficult to find tabular information. Use in conjunction with Business & Industry Database.

StatUSA -- of particular interest are the Country Commercial Guides and the various Market Research Reports

Disclosure Global Access contains financial info on international corporations, whereas, our subscription to FIS Online does not have an international component

Viewswire-- provides summary info on economic outlook. We are maintaining a print subscription to "Investing, Licensing and Trading Abroad" (ILT) which gives more in depth analysis.

• Websites

International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org --- follow the "Publications" link to World Economic Outlook, then follow the link "WEO Databases" for access to extensive files on gross domestic product, etc.

• Metasites

Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus.vibehome.htm

International Business Resources on the WWW http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm

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