LibGuides: Business Research: International

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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on management, finance, economics, industry, accounting, and international business from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications. Includes Political Risk Yearbooks.
Political Risk Yearbooks provide probability forecasts for political, social and economic trends for 100 countries, and are included in Business Source Complete since 2003. In the "Publication" field in the Advanced Search, search for Political Risk Yearbook and the name of the country.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, trade journals and market research reports with business and economic information
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search for global news and information content, including Dow Jones, Reuters Newswires, and The Wall Street Journal. Text & data mining prohibited by license. See the "more" link for details.
Text and data mining (TDM) of Factiva content is prohibited by license. TDM includes mass downloading of content via scripts (aka scraping) *and* via Factiva's internal tools for downloading content. Please use ProQuest's TDM Studio for text mining.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Sources include newspapers, scholarly journals, news wire services, newsletters, company reports,trade publications, broadcast transcripts, and selected reference works.

Proquest Asian Business Collection
Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.

Country Reports and News

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on management, finance, economics, industry, accounting, and international business from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications.

Political Risk Yearbooks provide probability forecasts for political, social and economic trends for 100 countries, and are included in Business Source Complete since 2003. In the "Publication" field in the Advanced Search, search for Political Risk Yearbook and the name of the country. The most recent copy in paper is at the Ford Business LIbrary Reference at HF1410 .P752. Check the library catalog for older paper copies
Political Risk Yearbooks provide probability forecasts for political, social and economic trends for 100 countries, and are included in Business Source Complete since 2003. In the "Publication" field in the Advanced Search, search for Political Risk Yearbook and the name of the country.
Passport This link opens in a new window
A source of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics and research reports for over 200 countries. Provides volume and value market size data for 330 consumer products across 49 countries.
Duke also has access to the following supplementary modules on Passport: Sustainability (new), Industrial, Product Claims & Positioning, Sports, Cannabis & Economies & Consumers.

Europa World
Contains current economic, social and political overviews of all nations of the world (not just Europe). A recent paper set is in the Perkins Refernece collection at JN1 .E85.
Global Competitiveness Report
Compiled by the World Economic Forum since 1996, this annual publication assesses and ranks the economic competitiveness of over 130 economies based on an array of economic, social and political indicators. The most recent report is available online and at Perkins/Bostock Ref. HF1414 .W674. Earlier volumes in stacks.
OECD Economic Surveys
Annual economic reviews prepared for the members of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) and for their significant world trading partners. Contained in pdf in the database OECD iLibrary under Books ... Annuals & Outlooks. Coverage is from 1961 to date. Some older Economic Surveys might also be in print (see catalog).
Trade Policy Reviews
Periodic detailed reviews of the national trade policies prepared for all members of the World Trade Organization. Frequency varies. The Reference collection in Perkins/Bostock Library houses the latest print editions of the Trade Policy Reviews which can be found using the online catalog.
World Economic Outlook
Online 1993 to date. Annual survey of the world economy prepared by the International Monetary Fund. (latest at Perkins/Bostock Ref. HC10. W7979, earlier years in stacks).
World Factbook
From the US CIA, provides short overviews on countries around the world, divided into these sections: Introduction, Geography, People and Society, Government, Economy, Energy, Communications, Transportation, Military, Transnational Issues. Other sections include country comparisons.

International Companies

MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Search for full text market research reports focusing on companies and broad industry sectors: consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology. Market analysis and forecasting looks at major issues and threats for each sector with analytical commentary and data.
ORBIS This link opens in a new window
Search financial, ownership, and basic information on over 200 million public & private companies worldwide. ORBIS provides global standard report formats as well as descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data.
S&P Global NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
S&P Global NetAdvantage is a subset of content available within S&P Capital IQ. It includes S&P Industry Surveys, equity & industry research, mutual fund information, executive and director listings, and CFRA Outlook - a weekly stock and industry newsletter.
A database covering a broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including Industry Surveys, and Equity Research (formerly Stock Reports). Industry data sets include key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, financial metrics, etc. by sub-industry or geography (see Markets tab). Archived Industry Surveys included as far back as 1999 depending upon title continuity. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.

Hoover's Company Profiles
Through ProQuest's Business Market Research Collection (choose Document type = Company Profile). Covers more than 40,000 public and non-public companies. Includes location, summary financials, top officers, top competitors, and industry analysis.

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