International Management: Websites

Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries and territories over the period 1996–2015, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability;
Political Stability and Absence of Violence;
Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; & Control of Corruption

Reports on international trade, competition, and tourism. The WEF main site provides a wealth of reports various aspects of international business.

Uses noneconomic measures to gauge the well-being of a country's inhabitants. It covers 133 countries, with partial data on 28 more. The Index consists of 52 indicators, divided into three major categories: basic human needs (shelter, sanitation), foundations of well-being (life-expectancy, school enrollment), and opportunity (tolerance, political rights). The indicator data come from well-respected producers of social data such as the United Nations, World Health Organization, OECD, and the World Bank, and are updated yearly. Data analysis is made available as brief summaries, detailed reports, graphic presentations, or full datasets, with options to embed, download, or display the data tables in different ways, instantly reconfigured online.

An interactive database from the Center for Global Development.

The World Press Freedom Index is compiled every year, evaluating the level of freedom available to the media in 180 countries. Also publishes thematic reports periodically.

Contains reports on legal quality and political freedom around the world and at the country level.

This site's mission is to expose corruption and encourage transparency in government decision-making and public policy formation. Produces an annual Corruption Perception Index along with other data and reports.

Download research reports, summaries, briefings, working papers, conference papers and articles from key publishers. You must register to see most of the content. Also contains citation to journal articles (which you can then search for in our own library).

International database of labour statistics provides multiple datasets with annual and infra-annual labour market statistics for over 100 indicators and 230 countries, areas and territories. Datasets include annual and short-term indicators; estimates and projections; and youth in developing countries. Also contains publications on the topics. NOTE: this is the new site which replaces LABORSTA (http://laborsta.ilo.org/) - the historical data (1969-2008) is currently still housed there, but will gradually be migrated to ILOSTAT.

Political risk analyses.

An informative, extensive site from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada which offers many tips on cross-cultural etiquette for a wide variety of countries including communication styles, dress, formality, managerial styles, workplace conflict, and more.

Information on the history, politics, and economic background of countries and territories, as well as audio and video clips from BBC archives.

Based on the research of Geert Hofstede, you can compare cultures of different countries based on 6 dimensions of national culture, and extends his analysis to organizational culture.

For many of the more popular languages, provides audio pronunciations of the basics.

Contains names and places from around the world that have been in the international news.

A glossary of international economics terms, at the introductory level.

A Government of Canada site providing a ton of information on trade including importing, exporting and researching international markets.

Links to Canadian Trade Commissioner Service offices around the world, which can provide advice and guidance regarding international business.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Also includes maps and flags.

Country and regional profiles for Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America with information on health, security, nutrition, governance, and more.

The FAO Country Profiles collects information from the entire FAO website and includes a direct link to the Country website for in-depth information.

Survey of firms in most countries on ease/challenges of doing business. An Enterprise Survey is a firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy’s private sector.

Trade information for over 170 countries in visual format.

Data on development, trade, investment, and related issues. Topics covered include: International trade, economic trends, foreign direct investment, external financial resources, population and labour force, commodities, information economy and creative economy.

Contains trade stats, country info, and research tools.

From the World Bank, the Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.

Contains country risk ratings, business climate ratings, and brief risk analysis for individual countries. Also contains data for comparison of risk by sector.

An online database featuring tax rates and information for 65 jurisdictions worldwide.

Link goes to its 'list of really useful links' on international trade.

Billing itself as "your source for global business knowledge", it's a huge portal to all sorts of international business information. Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University, the site is well-designed and easy to use, serving as a gateway to publicly available resources. Highly recommended.

The Emerging Markets team at Deutche Bank analyses political and economic developments in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, focusing on structural, long-term trends as well as on the importance of emerging markets for global financial markets.

This site aggregates African journalism; the Biztech section contains information on investments, agribusiness, finance, business technology, and more.

A portal to current developments in the hospitality industry, unique in its international scope and focus on a wide swath of the industry. Information includes industry news, financial news, market reports, executive appointments, association reports, supplier profiles, and more. A word of caution: be sure to discern between advertising and information.

Canada’s national tourism marketing organization. Includes statistics, market intelligence, industry analysis and forecasts for Canadian tourism.

Surveys and stats on the US travel & tourism industry.

Research, reports, trends and statistics on European tourism.

Association of business leaders in the Travel & Tourism industry. Contains tourism research including economic reports, rankings and forecasts for world regions and countries.

A government survey on long distance and local travel by the American public.