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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources that provide authoritative information. Entries may be quick facts or in-depth articles. Useful for: background information, key concepts, historical context, and mining reference lists.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 60,000 topics from 18,000 sources.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Includes robust United States and China industry reports.

CIA World Factbook
Concise profiles of the countries of the world, updated regularly. Great first stop for background, quick facts, and statistics.
Countries, Peoples, & Cultures
This link will take you to the links for the 9 volumes of Countries, Peoples, & Cultures. Choose the region for your country and click through to access the book online.
Google News

Access World News Research Collection (1972-Current) This link opens in a new window
Current and archived information from 1972 to present from thousands of local, regional, national, and international news sources including newspaper titles, newswires, web editions, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Also Included in this collection are North Carolina, Appalachia, Multi-Cultural, African American, and Military, Government & Defense news sources.

UN Data
The United Nations collects/reports a wide variety of statistics. This is an access system to UN databases. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.

Political / Legal

World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators
The World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for countries and territories for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. Click on "Interactive Data Access" to access the most recent reports.
OECD Annual Reports by Competition Agencies
Country reports submitted to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reviewing the latest developments in competition law and policy.
World Bank Doing Business Law Library
Collection of business laws and regulations with links to official government sources relating to banking/credit, civil codes, environmental, labor, privacy, tax, and trade laws.

Economic

World Bank Country Data
Data including GDP, population, school enrollment, and more from The World Bank.
OECD Economic Outlook
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD’s) biannual analysis of the major economic trends and prospects for the next two years.
Coface Economic Studies & Country Risk
Average credit risk evaluation of individual country's businesses.

Socio-Cultural & Technological

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute's statistical data & country profiles focusing on four themes: culture and communications, education, literacy, and science and technology.
Hofstede Country Comparison Tool
Comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture.