Guides: International Business: Doing Business In ...

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FitchConnect This link opens in a new window
FitchConnect integrates country risk, analysis of financial markets, and industry research, providing users with a variety of company and industry information including credit research, credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial fundamental data, Financial Implied Ratings, and a curated news service.

Doing Business In ...
The International Finance Corporation's and World Bank's Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
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Subjects covered are starting a business; protecting investors; dealing with construction permits; paying taxes; getting electricity; trading across borders; registering property; enforcing contracts; getting credit,; and resolving insolvency.

KOF Globalisation Index
"...measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation. Globalisation in the economic, social and political fields has been on the rise since the 1970s, receiving a particular boost after the end of the Cold War."

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Contains books, journals, newsletters, statistical periodicals, reference works, and interactive statistical data tables in over 25 database products published since 1998. Text can be searched by theme or country. Statistics can be searched by title and theme. Statistical databases allow users to build their own tables from the latest data, draw graphs and tables, and download to Excel or as .csv files.

Investment Arbitration Reporter This link opens in a new window
An electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations and lawsuits between foreign investors and their host governments.
Provided by the generous support of the Georgetown Law Library.

Market Research Library
These guides present a country's commercial environment using economic, political, and market analysis. Includes the full text of Country Commercial Guides, Market Research Reports, and Best Market Reports from 2005 to present. Published by the US DOC's Foreign Commercial Service.