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MIM
511 Global Business and Sustainability
Country
Information: Profiles & Statistics
| Business Source Premier |
| Multiple country profiles and reports from various publishers are available from the BSP database. To retrieve the full set of country reports, choose "change databases", type in the country name, then select the appropriate report. |
| World
Development Indicators: CD-ROM database (2nd floor) |
| Offers
the World Bank's comprehensive development data, including social,
economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators
back to 1960. Here
is an example of what the data look like. |
| SourceOECD |
| An
"online library" of statistical databases, books and periodicals.
Major resources include OECD Economic Survey, OECD Economic Outlook,
Main Economic Indicators, International Trade, etc. Covers various
aspects of economies including education, economy, infrastructure,
and trade. |
| Country Profiles from Library of Congress |
| Offers "brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security". Updated annually or more. |
| CIA World Factbook |
| Provides
a general profile of a country, including economic, social, political,
and demographic descriptions for every nation in the world. Descriptions
provided in this database are brief. Also available via LexisNexis
Academic Universe. |
| Nationmaster |
| Statistical
data and ranking and other relevant information from various sources.
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| International Data Base (IDB) |
| Published by the Census Bureau's International Programs Center (IPC), IDB is computerized source of demographic and socioeconomic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world. It combines data from country sources (especially censuses and surveys) with IPC's estimates and projections to provide information dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. Data coverage includes population, households, literacy, labor force, etc. |
| International Statistical Agencies |
| Compiled by the Census Bureau, here is a list of sites where most raw data come from. Most sites are in their native languages, although some may have an English version. A similar list is also available from the UN site. |
| GEOHIVE |
| "A site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena." Check out "charts" on the left navigation bar. |
| UN Statistics Division |
Multiple statistical databases on a broad range of economic and social indicators. Major databases include Infonation, Population of Capital Cities of the World, and Social Indicators.
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| Eurostat |
Comprehensive
collection of European statistics, covering population, economy,
industry and services, agriculture, external trade, transportation,
environment, technology, etc. |
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| Mergent Online |
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Comprehensive profiles of public companies and industry reports. |
| Investext |
| A "premier financial research database" that offers "investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East." Covers both public and private companies. |
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Topic-specific
Information
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Reference Books :: |
- World
development report: ** read the 2003
issue.
- Dictionary
of environment and sustainable development: HC79 .E5 G518
(Reference)
- Directory
of non-governmental organisations active in sustainable development:
HC79 .E5 D56 (Reference)
- Gale
environment almanac: GE80 .H69 (Reference)
- The
world competitiveness yearbook: HF1414 .W67 (Reference)
- The
global competitiveness report: HF1414 .G559 (Reference)
- The
Europa world year book: JN1 .E85 (Ready Reference)
- Asia
yearbook: HC411 .F19 2002 (Reference)
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To find books on "sustainable development", try searching
by "sustainable development" under Subject. |
| Business Source Premier |
| Search
for miscellaneous information such as the market share of video games,
anything related to video games in South Korea, etc. |
| Econlit |
| Subject
indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes
per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. |
| PAIS |
| contains
abstracts of journal articles, books, statistical yearbooks, directories,
conference proceedings, research reports and government documents
covering topics in public and social policy, business, economics,
finance, law, international relations, public administration, government,
political science, and other social sciences -- with emphasis on issues
that are or might become the subjects of legislation. |
| Dissertation
Abstracts |
| Master
theses and doctoral dissertations are good sources on a specific topic
since the author has done extensive research. Check out the bibliographies/references.
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| Sociological
Abstracts |
| Sociological
Abstracts covers the academic and professional literature in sociology
and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The
database draws information from an international selection of over
2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers,
books, and dissertations. Citations to journal articles published
after 1974 include abstracts. |
| Urban
Studies: Sage Fulltext |
| Anthropology,
economic development, economics, education, planning theory, political
science, public administration, urban policy -- available full text.
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| Social
Sciences Citation Index via Web of Science |
| Multidisciplinary
databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of
scholarly journals. The databases may be searched by: topic, author,
publication journal, author address, cited author, cited work, or
cited year. |
| Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management |
| Consists
of thirteen (13) databases relating to environment and pollution.
These include "Ecology Abstracts", "Pollution Abstracts",
"Water Resource Abstracts", and others in toxicology, health
and safety, and risk analysis. |
| JSTOR |
| Provides
online full text access to backfiles of many scholarly journals (see
list). JSTOR provides access to the complete backfile of the journals
excluding the most recent five years. |
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