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Company Research Guide
Tips for finding public and private company information, histories, financials, stock reports, and news.
Industry Research Guide
Tips for finding industry analysis, industry financial ratios, market research, industry news for industry research.
Doing Business & Risk Analysis
It is essential to know the challenges in doing business in a specific market before you commit time and money to doing business there.
The resources below can help you understand the business climate and risk, business opportunities, how easy it is to do business, how to navigate the political environment, in countries around the world.
- D&B Country Reports
Useful for international business and doing business in other countries .
Risk Reports provide information on political risk, economic risk and commercial risk within a country.
Country Reports provide an economic overview, history and government information, and more.
Provides country risk data on over 98% of the worlds GDP–over 130 countries with 10 years of historical data on each county.
Directions for use:
Business Source Complete has several useful reports on business risk and ease of doing business.
- Search for "country monitor" and your country name to find reports such as Argentina Country Monitor.
- These reports give economic growth, political structure, outlook, etc.
- Search for "country risk" and your country to find reports such as Argentina Country Risk Report.
- Reports cover topics including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis, economic forecasts to 2026, and long-term political outlook.
- Business Source Complete
Provides full text access of more than 3500 journals, trade publications, magazines, company reports, and more, in the disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.
Also useful for finding company profiles, industry profiles, and SWOT analysis for companies.
Search Strategies for Passport
- Use the search box in Passport and search for Business Dynamics in [insert your country name]
- Also search for Economy, Finance and Trade [insert country]
- make sure when you find a good report, use the "related" links on the left to find other relevant information
- Passport
Passport offers comprehensive coverage of international consumer markets, consumer lifestyles in other countries, economic statistics, demographic forecasting, and industry reports for most major markets and consumer products, and more.
Other useful links
- Coface Economic Studies & Country RisksProvides quick political and economic risk assessments for 160 nations, drawn up on the basis of macroeconomic, financial and political data. Regularly updated, they provide an estimate of the average credit risk on a country’s businesses.
- UHY Doing Business GuidesCovers Business environment, Foreign investment, Setting up a Business, Labour, Taxation, Accounting & reporting for 60 international markets.