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Offers an analysis and visualization tool of economic, social and environmental indicators. Contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Users can create queries, generate tables, charts, and maps, and easily save, embed, and share them.

PWT version 10.0 is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019.

Provides IMF data from International Financial Statistics, World Economic Outlook, and many other datasets. The IMF provides technical assistance and training on critical economic issues to central banks, finance ministries, tax authorities, and other economic institutions.

Covers 150 countries, providing political analysis, economic analysis, and key economic data. Profiles of key industries in those countries are also available.

To access: In the search box type "marketline country profile" and country of interest. Click Search button.

Aggregates international business and trade data as well as economic trends and other information resources. Organized by Country, Trade Bloc, Economic Classification, Industry or State, this is a great place to start your hunt for international information. From Michigan State University.

Includes country reports, rankings, and sometimes city/regional analysis.

Covers economic trends, political environment, how to market U.S. products, leading sectors for exports, trade regulations, investment climate, business travel, and more. From the International Trade Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Provides political, economic, and financial risk ratings and analysis for 100 countries important to international business.

To access: type "political risk yearbook" in the search box along with your country of interest.

This website, using information from the CIA and other U.S. government entities, provides basic information and statistics about countries throughout the world.

Instructions for access here. Kenan-Flagler affiliates ONLY.
Full digital access to all 46 regional Business Journals including Raleigh/Durham, Charlotte, Austin, Silicon Valley and 42 more.

Capital IQ allows users to search for and screen for information on companies including in-depth financial information on publicly traded companies, information on investment firms, biographical information on corporate professionals, and transactions in both the public and private capital markets by a very wide range of company identification data, financial statement data, executive’s biographical characteristics, and deal or transaction specifics. (Source Vendor Web site)

Information can be exported to Excel.

SPECIAL NOTE: Because of licensing restrictions: Access to Capital IQ is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Find information on some 3 million companies in 35 European countries. Search by company name, industry, country, or region of country. Each entry includes addresses, phone numbers, maybe an email contact, maybe a map of the location. You must select one of 26 languages before searching.

From the Securities & Exchange Commission. This site provides access to the full-text of 10-K, Proxies and other reports publicly traded companies are required to file with the SEC.

Official site that provides access to most public securities documents and information filed by Canadian public companies and investment funds with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) in the SEDAR filing system. SEDAR is a rough equivalent to the SEC’s EDGAR files but it is for Canadian companies.

Provides profiles of 19,000 large private companies from around the world.

All 50 states make some level of corporate and business filings available online. In a few instances only limited information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge. This roster is from the National Association of Secretaries of State and includes the 50 states, DC and U.S. territories.