Research Guides: MGT 6352: Managerial Writing: Country

Databases

CultureGrams (Owen users only) This link opens in a new window
Reports on countries and territories, including every United Nations-member state. Focused on culture: language, personal appearance, greetings, family structure and more. Local experts document details of customs, traditions and daily life.
EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit This link opens in a new window
In-depth reports that include political and economic data and policies. Three separate databases: Country Report, Country Profile, and CountryData.
All current Vanderbilt University students, faculty, and staff have access, both on and off campus.
IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Books, periodicals, working papers, and country reports on the International Monetary Fund's activities, policies, and member countries.
IMF eLibrary - Data This link opens in a new window
International statistics related to domestic and international finance. International payments, rates of inflation & deflation, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, monetary policy, interest rates, etc. Includes Government Finance Statistics (GFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), Trade and Investment, and International Financial Statistics (IFS).
Coverage: Historical data for BOP, DOT, and IFS are available from 1948, and for GFS from 1972.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's books, papers and statistics, analysis and data. Includes: OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Surveys, SourceOECD Education and Skills, and the Nuclear Law Bulletin.
All current Vanderbilt University students, faculty, and staff have access, both on and off campus.
World Bank eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Books, journal articles, and working papers on social and economic development. World Bank flagship and annual publications, data, regional and thematic series, training manuals and handbooks, etc.
Coverage: 1990s to present.
World DataBank: World Development Indicators This link opens in a new window
Collection of time-series data, and global development indicators. Cross-country comparable statistics about development and people’s lives around the globe and includes national, regional and global estimates.
Coverage: 1960 to present.

Web Sites

The following websites have been selected by the librarians at Walker Management Library as being choice sources of country risk analysis & risk rating information on the World Wide Web:

A.M. Best
Generally known for Insurance Industry ratings, A.M. Best also assigns a risk rating to 59 countries.
Coface
This international risk and consulting firm offers free country risk ratings, assessments and reports for 152 countries
Doing Business In...
Provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
Country Commercial Guides
Global Edge
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a web-portal to specific Country and Industry risk data.
OECD - Country Risk Classification
Country credit risk and classification into eight country risk categories (0 - 7). A historical classification is also available.
World Factbook
A product of the CIA.