MALS 620: The Global Economy
Articles & the Economist- Online Economics Encyclopedias
- Economic Data
- Trade Data & Barriers
- Country Profiles
- Business Aspects of Countries
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1. Articles
Economist in fulltext via Ebsco Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier
- Our largest database for business articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Also provides country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch.
- Also provides company and industry reports from MarketLine.
- Covers 1984-present, with earlier coverage for hundreds of top business journals.
EconLit with Full Text
- Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text from over 700 economics journals.
- Also indexes books, dissertations, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.
- Provides the full text of selected book reviews.
- Covers economic history and theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, production, welfare, inflation, accounting, international trade, consumer finance, and more.
- Covers 1969-present.
Search EconLit and Business Source Premier together.
LexisNexis Academic
- Provides full text articles from business newspapers, press releases, newsletters, and some trade magazines.
- Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries.
- A weak source for articles from general business magazines and scholarly journals.
- Covers 1975-present.
- More info
OneSource Global (select "International Businesses" in ReferenceUSA)
- Select the "News & Reports" section.
- Provides full text articles from newspapers, newswires, and trade magazines.
- Use the advanced search to easily focus on certain countries, industries, etc.
- More info
General OneFile
- Covers all aspects of business and economics.
- Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries.
- Covers over 10,000 general periodicals and scholarly journals.
- Covers 1980-present.
2. Online Economics Encyclopedias
Oxford Dictionary of Economics
- Provides 3,400 entries covering all aspects of economic theory, including microeconomics, public finance, international trade, mathematical and statistical terms,and related terms from business and finance.
- 2nd edition; published in 2002.
Routledge Dictionary of Economics
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- Provides 900 articles covering all aspects of economic history.
- Published in 2003.
Elsevier Economics Handbooks (via Science Direct)
Eight country research encyclopedias from Gale
- Search eight encyclopedias covering countries and world regions at once.
- Covers culture, business, economics, religion, communication, and education.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed.
- Provides over 3,000 entries.
- Published in 2008.
3. Economic Data
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides economic and marketing statistics for over 200 countries.
- Covers 1977 through 5-year projections.
- Data can be downloaded into Excel.
Source OECD
- Provides full text country reports and profiles from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Also provides many datasets.
- Covers 1998-present
- More info
World Development Indicators Online (WDI)
- Provides 550 indicators for over 200 countries and 18 county groups, from 1960 to one year ago.
- Covers social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental data.
- Results can be exported into Excel.
- From the World Bank.
UN Data
- Provides access to more than 300 statistical series.
- Includes United Nations Statistics Division information on merchandise trade, national accounts, demography and population, energy, status of women and industrial commodities production
- Dates vary by series; most begin in the 1970's.
- More info
See also the General Sources above.
4. Trade Data & Barriers
Introduction to Trade Data & Commodity Codes
- A library guide to the coding systems and databases for trade data.
- Below are some key links drawn from the guide.
Key Sources for Global Trade
Comtrade
- From the United Nations.
- Covers 1962-one year ago
- Uses up to 5-digit SITC codes and 6-digit harmonized codes.
- Data can be downloaded into Excel.
- For an illustrated guide to one way of searching Comtrade, see the MKT426 library guide.
International Trade Centre (United Nations) Trade Statistics
- Covers 2001-2005
- Uses 3-digit SITC
- Provides international import and export statistics by product group or country.
- Simple to use, but there are no options for aggregation-level.
- There's no download option.
Key Sources for US-based Trade
USITC Trade DataWeb
- From the US International Trade Commission.
- Requires free registration.
- Covers 1989 to two months ago.
- Commodity codes used: HS, SITC, SIC, or NAICS, at any level of aggregation.
- Data can be downloaded into Excel.
- Covers U.S. imports and exports, at all levels of commodity classification.
Trade Data Online (TDO)
- A free, web-based database from Industry Cananda covering U.S. data (as well as Canadian).
- Covers the most recent 10 years, up to a few months ago.
- Uses up to 6-digit HS.
- Data can be downloaded into Excel.
- This site lets you to create customized reports on Canadian and US imports and exports with over 200 countries.
- Data can be presented as a graph ("run graph"), chart ("run report"), or spreadsheet ("save data to file" -- look for this icon under the graph or chart).
- To get 2-5 level HS codes, use the "browse list" option for the Product Search.
Europa World
- Provides the recent history, government, economics, and other topics for every country and territory in the world.
- Includes a statistical survey (covering area and population, agriculture, industries, finance, external trade, principal trading partners, transportation, and more) and a detailed directory (listing government offices, media sources, trade associations, and more).
Business Source Premier
- The Country Reports link on the left allows you to browse many reports for each country.
- Sources include the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Countrywatch, Datamonitor, Global Insight, ICON Group, OECD Economic Surveys, and the Political Risk Yearbook.
MarketLine (Datamonitor)
- Covers 50 countries, providing political analysis, economic analysis, and key economic data.
- Profiles of industries in those countries are also available.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
- From the Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Provides the full text of the 2002 edition of the encyclopedia.
- Covers 198 countries.
Popular free sources:
EIU Country Commerce
- Provides "how to do business" information for over 54 countries.
- Includes coverage of trade regulations and tariffs, investment conditions and regulations, e-commerce and intellectual property law, taxes, financial incentives, labor trends, and more.
Country Commercial Guides (CCG) (Market Research Library)
- Use the "Report Type" to limit a search to a CCG.
- Most reports cover economic trends, political environment, how to market U.S. products, leading sectors for exports, trade regulations, investment climate, business travel, and more.
- Most of the guides are updated annually.
- Industry Canada is another option for getting the CCG reports.
