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Foster Business Library Databases:
#1. EIU Online: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases. This database, provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit, provides online access to:
#1 (tie). Euromonitor: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases. Produced by Euromonitor, Inc., this database provides global consumer market information, with demographics, trends and developments, market background, market sizes and forecasts, market shares, key players, and company profiles, for a relatively small number of major countries.
#2. STAT-USA: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases. Go to:
#3. Europa World: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases. This database mirrors the Europa World Year Book in the Foster Business Library, with profiles for 250 countries as well as a variety of regions and international organizations, with statistical, historical, political, and economic information and data, as well as a comparison feature, and directory information.
#5. U.S. Embassies: The U.S.State Department has embassies and consulates in 140 countries, with their individual websites often providing valuable local information for business, usually under the heading of the U.S. Commercial Service. The Commercial Service provides information for U.S. businesses interested in exporting to the country as well as information for companies in the country where the embassy is located about doing business with the U.S.
#6. American Chambers of Commerce Abroad: The American Chambers of Commerce Abroad "advance the interests of American business overseas. They are voluntary associations of American companies and individuals doing business in a particular country, as well as firms and individuals of that country who operate in the United States. " There are currently 94 American chambers of commerce in 82 countries, affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
#7. CIA World Factbook: These brief country profiles, prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, offer information about government, economy, GDP, CPI, labor force, unemployment rate, budget, industries, agriculture, export, import, telecommunications, debt, foreign aid for more than two hundred and fifty countries.
#9. Doing
business and investing in.
These 200-page country profiles, for about 24 countries, prepared by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, cover
business
environment, opportunities for foreign investment and trade, investment incentives and
restrictions, the regulatory situation, banking, business entities, labor relations and social security, auditing and accounting practices and tax. New countries are added to this set since it was first published in 1999. An earlier series, Doing Business In, covers another 75 countries, published from 1984 to 1998. Click here
for a list of the titles in both series by country; not all countries are covered.
#10. International financial statistics yearbook.
Published annually by the International Monetary Fund, this compendium of
statistics for every country provides information on population, GDP,
producer, wholesale and consumer prices, wages, labor force,
unemployment, volume and value of imports and exports, and many other
categories. Statistics cover each year of the past 30 years, where
data is available. The most recent decade of the monthly version of this
yearbook is available in the
Foster Business Library Reference Serials collection, with the call
number HG3881 .I626
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG3881 .I6263 2005.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed most of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find research tools on any business subject. For more in-depth assistance, see the Team Librarian Consultation Archives. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.