Business Librarian
Business and Commercial Conditions
- globalEDGE This link opens in a new window
A web portal for international business professionals with a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. Includes Ease of Doing Business index.
- Country Commercial Guides
Reports and insights on market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs prepared by U.S. Embassies worldwide. - World Bank Business Ready (B-READY)
Very detailed information for conducting business in economies around the world. Includes reports and data covering regulatory frameworks, public services, and operational efficiency. - Deloitte International Tax Source
DITS is an online database featuring tax rates information and country tax highlights for over 130 jurisdictions worldwide. - World Bank Enterprise Surveys(WBES) are nationally representative firm-level surveys with top managers and owners of businesses in over 150 economies that provide insight into many business environment topics such as access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, and performance.
Economic, Political, and Legal Conditions
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
The world’s largest online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields. - Public Affairs Index This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of national and global public policy issues, including public health, the environment, housing, civil rights and international commerce.
- Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch is an international research and advocacy organization that investigates and reports on human rights issues.
- Pew Research Center: International AffairsArticles reporting on research on many areas of international affairs, including current events, global economy and trade, and related topics
- Political Risk Yearbook
Annual publications providing political, economic, and financial risk ratings and analysis for 100 countries important to international business. - Transparency InternationalA global coalition focused on corruption; offers the Corruption Perception Index and Global Corruption Barometer reports.
- US Department of State: Countries and AreasFact sheets, travel information, and details of US relations with different countries and regions of the world.
- World Economic Forum Centre for Regions, Trade and GeopoliticsResearch and reports on political and economic environments impacting trade. Includes annual publication of The Global Cooperation Barometer.
- WTO Trade Concerns Database
The Trade Concerns Database allows users to view profiles of WTO member countries where trade concerns raised in WTO committee meetings are documented.
