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Country background and profiles

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) NU Community
Database of country-level intelligence prepared by the Economist Intellligence Unit. Includes commerce, finance and economic reports on countries authored by EIU analysts stationed in those countries. Also includes newsletters and other news updates from various countries and regions. Search by country, by title of publication, or by words or phrases within the documents.

Global Market Information Database GMID NU Community NEW!
GMID from Euromonitor International provides business intelligence on consumers, industries, and countries. It offers integrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched.

ISI Emerging Markets NU Community
Multilingual database of business news and intelligence as well as company, industry, financial, economic and political information from emerging market countries in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Far East, and Australia. Includes corporate profiles, financial statements, industry reports, analyst reports, capital market quotes and indices, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls.

Europa World Yearbook NU Community
Political and economic information for over 250 countries.

Library of Congress Portals to the World Unrestricted
Important links to the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts.

Nationmaster.com Unrestricted
Country data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Maps and graphs can be generated with provided statistics.

CIA World Factbook Unrestricted
Country profiles including information on geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

Tradeport.org Unrestricted
Brief profiles on 175 countries from World Trade Press.

Statistics and market research

National Trade Data Bank (aka Stat USA) NU Community
(Access available only at the MAIN Library - Government and Geographic Info and Data Services Dept. (inquire at Govt. reference desk)). Current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the trade library of the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB). Published in-part by the US Department of Commerce.

Mintel Market Research Reports NU Community
First-time users must create a login profile. Covers US, European and some Asian markets in the following: automotive, consumer lifestyles, food, household, media, retail, beauty, health, drink and tobacco, leisure, technology, clothing, electrical goods, travel, life stages, personal finances, and miscellaneous.

ISI Emerging Markets NU Community
Includes industry and economic analysis on emerging market countries.

SourceOECD NU Community
Online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Includes the full-text of OECD periodicals and statistics.

International Financial Statistics (via the IMF) NU Community
Contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables. The Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables are available as selection options. The Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.

World Development Indicators (via the World Bank) NU Community

Publications by Euromonitor
Search for Euromonitor publications in NUcat under the Guided Search. Set Euromonitor as publisher to retrieve all publications. The following are a selection of them, latest volume located in Reference, Management Corner.

Consumer... series
These sources cover market and consumer trends in various countries, including statistics on major retail items purchased. Includes some socio-economic parameters. Consumer Europe covers 16 European countries whereas Consumer International covers 28 non-European countries.

Consumer Asia L 339.47095 C7582 Reference Mgmt
Consumer China L 658.834 C7581 Reference Mgmt
Consumer Eastern Europe L 339.47 C7583 Reference Mgmt
Consumer Europe L 381.094 C758 Reference Mgmt
Consumer International L 381.622 C758 Reference Mgmt
Consumer Latin America L 338.098 C7581 Reference Mgmt
Consumer Middle East L 658.834 C7583 Reference Mgmt
Consumer USA L 339.47097 C758

...Marketing Data and Statistics series
These sources cover marketing statistics in several countries, including marketing geography, demographic forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, market sizes, consumer expenditures, retail distribution, advertising patterns, living standards, cultural indicators and income.

China Marketing Data and Statistics L 330.951 C53994 Reference Mgmt
European Marketing Data and Statistics L 381.622 E89 Reference Mgmt
International Marketing Data and Statistics 382.05 I596 Reference Mgmt

World Consumer Income and Expenditure Patterns L 339.3 W927 Reference Mgmt
Provides consumer expenditure statistics and trends on various products and services, income, and socio-economic parameters.

News and Journal Articles

Oxresearch aka Oxford Analytica NU Community
Oxresearch articles analize economic and political developments worldwide, and evaluate issues within a political, social, and economic framework. The objective, multidisciplinary articles are compiled by an international network of over 1,000 faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities, as well as think-tanks and other institutions of international standing.

ABI/Inform (ProQuest version) NU Community
Indexes and abstracts of more than 1,800 business and management titles. The full text of the articles are included for nearly half of the citations in the database in a variety of formats, including text, text and graphics, and PDF. Choose Advanced Search and then choose a search by location under the drop-down menu.

Business Source Premier NU Community
 Full text and abstracts from regional, national and international business and trade journals. Choose Advanced Search and then choose Geographic terms from the drop-down menu.

Lexis Nexis Academic NU Community
Enter site, click on News, then, under step one, select World News.

Factiva NU Community
Enter site, click on Search, then click on Source. Under select source category, select publications by region of the world. Otherwise, enter site, click on Search, then click on region to search by region or country as a subject.

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