- • Business Week http://www.businessweek.com
- • The Economist http://www.economist.com
- • Newsweek http://newsweek.com
- • Fortune http://www.fortune.com
- • European Commerce http://www.eurocommerce2000.com
- • Euro Business http://www.eurobusiness.net
- • Forbes http://www.forbes.com
- • World Trade http://www.worldtrademag.com
- • Business Eastern Europe http://www.news2biz.com
- • Financial World http://www.financialworld.co.uk
- • The Nikkei Weekly http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/TNW
- • The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com
- • Financial Times http://www.ft.com
Additional International Business Sites:
European Union. The official site of the European Union http://www.europa.eu.int gives access to press releases; the latest statistics; official documents, legal texts, publications and databases, and sources of information; access to the home pages of the EU institutions; and more.
http://www.stat-usa.gov STAT-USA is part of the US Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration, and produces and distributes at a nominal subscription fee the most extensive government-sponsored business, economic, and trade information database in the world today.
http://www.oecd.org – For information about the Organization of Economic Cooperation (OECD), associated data for the 29 member countries, and selected articles from the OECD Observer.
http://www.worldbank.org – The homepage of the Worldbank, with links to various databases.
http://www.wto.org/ – The homepage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) provides information regarding their operations. For a complete description and history of GATT visit
http://www.wto.org/wto/about/about.htm.
http://www.imf.org/ – The homepage of the IMF, provides information about the IMF and international banking and finance.
http://www.un.org/ – The homepage of the United Nations.
http://www.latinsynergy.org/ – The Latin America Alliance homepage, for information on Latin America and its countries.
http://www.gemi.org/ – Visit this site for information on the Global Environmental Management Initiative, an organization of 22 US multinational companies dedicated to environmental protection.
http://www.webdirectory.com/ – The “Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory”, a 7 search engine for environmental subjects.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NCR&t=2y&c= – The “Yahoo! Finance Quotes and Info”
http://www.undp.org/popin/ – The homepage of the United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis.
http://www.webofculture.com/ – The Web of Culture, an interesting site with information on various cultural traits, gestures, holidays, languages, religion, and so forth. It provides a “question corner” where you can ask about the cultural nuances of a particular nation or ethnic group.
http://www.demographics.com/ – For full text search in issues of American Demographics Magazine and Marketing Tools Magazine.
http://www.transparency.de/ – The homepage of Transparency International, an international organization dedicated to “curb[ing] corruption through international and national coalition encouraging governments to establish and implement effective laws, policies and anti-corruption programmes. Amongst others they publish the Corruption Perception Index that ranks countries by the perceived level of corruption.
http://www.eiu.com/ – The Economist Intelligence Unit, gives instant access to global business intelligence. For instance abstracts of country reports of current political and economic data
http://www.klipsan.com/elecnews.htm/ – Election Notes for current election news from around the world and links to the world’s newspapers.
http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/ – Political Resources on the Net, for political information from countries throughout the world, including elections, political sites, governments, media, and political parties.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/, http://www.meti.go.jp
http://www.jetro.org – Japan External Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org – World Trade Organization
http://www.un.org/ – United Nations
http://www.imf.org/ – (International Monetary Fund)
http://www.worldbank.org – World Bank
http://www.oecd.org/ (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development),
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat (Statistics of the European Union)
http://www.eiu.com – The Economist Intelligence Unit
http://www.euromonitor.com – Euromonitor
http://www.stat-USA.gov – United States Government (US Office of documents)
http://www.ita.doc.gov – International Trade administration)
http://www.ffas.usda.gov (US Department of Agriculture)
http://statcan.ca/start_e.html – Statistics Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_ecnmy/sio/homepage.html – Industry overview
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/io00201e.html,
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/menu-e.asp – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
http://exportsource.ca/index_e.cfm – Export Canada Information Guide