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Country Profiles and Statistics (1) CIA World Factbook: provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies. BBC Country Profiles Country Insights (from globalEDGE): provides current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and statistical data for 201 countries. Business Source Premier (BSP): provides countries reports, political risk yearbooks, industry reports, market reports in addition to full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals. ABI/Inform: EIU Viewswire provides concise overview of the economic and social political profile of individual countries as well as the regulations relevant to trade and investments. 3

Country Profiles and Statistics (2) World Trade Organization (WTO): a global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The web site provides information on statistics, research, publications and other services offered by the WTO. International Financial Statistics: contains archival data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government finance and national accounts of IMF member countries. Datastream: thousands of macroeconomic time series data from World Bank, IMF, EuroStat, EIU and local statistical offices. DoingBusiness: benchmarking business regulations by World Bank. 4

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13 Country Competitiveness World Competitiveness Yearbook Printed version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67 CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67 Online version: bin/ebwcyhttp:// bin/ebwcy Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World

14 World Competitiveness Yearbook Search Library by Book Title: World Competitiveness Yearbook Call Number: [REF] HF1414.W67 (Lingnan Only Web access: )[REF] HF1414.W67

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16 Industry Information and News tdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade Development Council) Tablebase: Contains tables of data relating to companies, products, industries, brands, markets, countries and demographics from around the world on some 90 industries. LexisNexis Academic: Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world. Factiva: Provides access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data.

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