Research Guides: Business Administration Research Guide: Global Business

World Information

IMF World Economic Outlook Database
International Monetary Fund report.
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The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries. The WEO is released in October and September/October each year.
IMF World Economic Outlook Reports
International Monetary Fund report.
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Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Content items (September 2014)

9 670 ebook titles
39 200 chapters
85 400 tables and graphs
4 000 articles
4 000 multilingual summaries
4 360 working papers
3 640 key tables
5 billion data points across 42 databases.
The World Bank
Working for a world free of poverty.
World Bank Data Catalog
The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data, according to the Open Data Terms of Use. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.
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Download the data catalog as an Excel spreadsheet at http://api.worldbank.org/v2/datacatalog/downloadfile
World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

Regional Trade Associations or Secretariats

The Secretariats or homepages of the various regional economic or trade communities are:

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement(CAFTA-DR)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Comunidad Andina (Andean Community)
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
European Union
Free Trade Area of the Americas
Middle East Free Trade Area Initiative (MEFTA)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
Southern African Development Community
Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR/MERCOSUL)
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Listing based upon International Business, Regional Information pages from Rutgers University. Used with the author's permissions (Thanks Ka-Neng Au and Roberta Tipton!)

The Left Side of Trade

There are alternative perspectives on globalization, "free trade", and deregulation. Here are a few jumping off sites to start with.

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Global Trade Watch's mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect their lives.
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Global Trade Watch (GTW) is a division of Public Citizen, the national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971. Public Citizen has over 225,000 due-paying members mainly in the United States. Global Trade Watch was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena.
CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN
The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We are united in a common belief that international trade and investment are not ends unto themselves, but instead must be viewed as a means for achieving other societal goals such as economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment.
Naked Capitalism
More about economics than global trade, but "NC" is a good blog to read.