Business, Accounting Resources
International Business
Countries & Regions - The Background Notes link Countries provides updated profile regarding official name, geography, link to a map and additional country information, including photos and other links; history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations, U.S. relations, and travel/business. Regions include affairs of different regions such as African, East Asian and Pacific, European and Eurasian Affairs, Near Eastern, South Asian, and Western Hemisphere. Within these links, additional links include country information is available, official travel to the region, releases and an archive.
CIA World Factbook - View a country’s map, flag, introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. View maps of different regions of the world. Includes appendices of abbreviations, international organizations and groups, selected international environmental agreements, cross-reference list of country data codes, cross-reference list of hydrographic data codes, and cross-reference list of geographic codes.
IPANet (Investment Promotion Network) - The Investment Promotion Network (IPAnet) is the leading international investment-specific portal website providing free access to online foreign investment and privatization resources. Provides an extensive searchable database of over 10,000 web-based docs including research on economies and product markets, investment-related laws and treaties to specific investment opportunities. Contact info for over 30,000 orgs and individuals involved in foreign investment. Provides links to a number of diverse sources of investment highlights, including links to subsidiary websites.
International Monetary Fund - Country information, news releases, publications, IMF Finances, Standards & Codes. IMF is an international org of 183 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, to support economic growth and high levels of employment and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. Links for various categories: surveillance, lending, resources, current issues, technical assistance, statutes and decisions, IMF in the community, research, statistical topics, legal topics, and evaluations.
MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Association) - MIGA promotes foreign direct investment. Links: products and services, policies, projects, partnerships, publications, news and events and more.
WEO Database - Date: December 18, 2001. Includes how to use files, about the dataset and how to use it, selected world aggregates, real gross domestic product, net capital flows, external debt and debt service. The World Economic Outlook presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.) and in many individual countries. Focuses on major economic policy issues, analysis of economic developments and prospects. Prepared twice a year usually, as documentation for International Monetary and Financial Committee meetings and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities.
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Bank of Japan - Features monetary policy, speeches, financial & payment system, publications & services, figures at a glance and more.
Best European Union Business Websites - Features European Commission Delegation websites, one stop internet shop for business, e-commerce, EU Business legislation overview, Euro Info Centres, Eurostat: Statistical office, grants and loans available, partners service, TED, 5 websites under the directorates general, other EU Bodies websites, and websites featuring overviews of EU policies and legislation. Includes detailed doc on “what is European Union under Research Tools – click on link to show details. Other research tools: links to internet and e-resources, business and employment resources, research and academic resources and EU Contact info. The European Union is a unique treaty-based institutional framework defining and managing economic and political cooperation among its 15 European member countries.
Eastern Europe / Former Soviet Republics
Central Europe Online - Central Europe Online by the same publishers who produce Russia Today Front page and business news across Central Europe; and other related material; updated daily. Especially the Business tab.
Eurasia Research Center - Features research reports, news analysis, and links to newspaper articles and wire service reports with breaking news on the Balkans, Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus, formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Also featured are direct links to pages with information on politics, issues of war and peace, culture, and social, economic and human rights conditions in Post Cold War Eurasia. The Eurasia Research Center EurasiaNews service provides special reports on crisis regions of Eurasia such as Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and Tajikistan. Eurasianews organizes a wide variety of news sites covering the region and arranges those links into news in English, news in a foreign language and commercial sites that charge fees.
EURASIANET.org - Eurasianet.org provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. Site focuses on Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Kygyzstan. Each of these Central Eurasian countries has a separate resource page, with links grouped according to subjects, with some history links. Maps http://www.eurasianet.org/maps/central_asia_map.html Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Executive Planet - Executive Planet's mission is to inspire business travelers to travel with greater cultural awareness. EP strives to present up-to-date and relevant information on international business culture, customs and protocol, gift-giving, negotiating tactics, business entertainment, cross-cultural communication and more. Covers numerous aspects of business protocol, including gift-giving, negotiating tactics, appointments, business entertaining, cross-cultural communication and more.
Rusmarket.com - Created to help foreign companies to organize and carry on business with Russian and other NIS-countries counterparts. Companies are categorized by type and include the number of links for each division.
Middle East / North Africa
Africa Online - Africa Online is a broad-spectrum portal to sites and resources of the African continent. The Business section contains a North Africa Business News subsection.
Ali & Partners: Middle Eastern Laws - This Washington D.C. law firm provides access to six Doing Business In documents for Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E. The documents focus on entering the market, forms of entry, company requirements, joint ventures, taxation, intellectual property, and several other topics.
AME Info: Middle East Business Information & Financial News - AME Info's tag line is "The Ultimate Middle East business resource" and it delivers this goal by providing a wide array of business information. Arabic financial market information, the top 100 Arabian companies, current headlines, sector information, concise country guides, and much more. AME Info also has relationships with Credit Suisse First Boston, HSBC, and several other regional news organizations. Extras include reports on a variety of e-commerce issues and executive interviews. A database of over 200,000 companies from 14 Middle East countries is available.
Mbendi: Africa’s Leading Business Site - Created for businesspeople to research business opportunities throughout the world, this site offers a host of information grouped by databases, industry, regions & business. Find subsidiaries of a particular company in Africa.
Mena Report: Middle East & North Africa Business Report - The Middle East & North Africa Business Report covers all aspects of business. Extensive coverage of current events in 9 industry sectors, in-depth reports on the Amman Stock Exchange, and a variety of country-specific information.
Middle East Maps - University of Texas Library: Online Maps: Middle East Maps. The Perry-Castañeda Library provides access to a selection of over 100 current and historic regional and country-specific maps online. The maps encompass topographical, political and military information.
The Middle East & North Africa Regional Database - Contains information on Business Travel & Etiquette, Customs Information, Financing Regulations and Contacts, General Economic and Marketing Information, Laws and Procedures for Licensing & Investing, and many other resources.