Global Perspectives - Issues Research
Research Reports
- The Economist Intelligence Unit is a leader in providing country intelligence and analysis on global market trends and business strategies for 205 countries.
- The Economist magazine offers in-depth surveys on a wide range of topics.
- At the top of the page, under Research Tools, use the drop down box to select Surveys
- On the next screen use the drop down box to select a survey by topic
- ViewsWire provides current analysis on a country's economy, politics, business, finance,
industry and regulatory environment, including country risk.
- In the left menu bar, use the drop down box and select the region or country of your choice
- Country Reports and Profiles offer comprehensive coverage of issues in 205 countries
- Business Briefings cover the latest regional business conditions including: business outlooks per country, key macroeconomic indicators, legal and tax updates
Global Market Information Database
- 4500 market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing for 71 countries.
- from the top navigation bar, click on Browse Reports
- News, company, industry and macroeconomic information for emerging-market countries; includes local language publications.
Background and Concepts
- Full-text access to news, business, medical, educational and legal sources. The sources include international, national, and regional newspapers; journals; newsletters and transcripts.
- On opening page, select the Find More Sources link. Try Country & Region or Market & Industry sections.
- Full -text coverage of over 9,000 publications.
- Select Factiva Intelligent Indexing to search by region or country or use "Source Browser" to select publications by region or country or by individual publication. (Some foreign language publications).
- Indexes over 1,000 U.S. and international business and trade journals in the areas of business, management, finance, economics, human resources and marketing. Includes full text of 700 journals in an image (PDF) format.
- Indexes more than 2,000 business publications. Includes full-text coverage of the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, and the California Management Review.
- Citations and abstracts to articles from more than 400 economics journals, books and dissertations.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Index and abstracts of books, periodicals and selected local, state, national, and international government documents in the areas of public policy, social policy and the social sciences.
EUCLID
Search by subject term(s) to find books in Emory's online catalog.
- Excellent for researching issues in developing countries; search across a variety of World Bank publications; full-text online.
- Global Development Finance - The Development Potential of Surging Capital Flows - 2006
- Annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries.
- Discusses the structural transformation and mainstreaming of emerging debt markets, phenomenon of credit default swap transactions on emerging sovereign and corporate names and the greater reliance in developing countries on local-currency financing
- The Electronic Data Center in the library has the CD-ROM with all the data.
United Nations Development Program
- UNDP is the United Nations' principal provider of development advice, advocacy and grant support. A searchable index of the UNDP Project Reports* provides access to project reports dating back to 1972-1998.
- For additional information on UN publications, see the General Libraries' United Nations Research Guide.
Foreign Country and Foreign Governments Research Guide
- General Libraries' guide to standard electronic and print sources.
International
and Nongovernmental Organizations Research Guide
- General Libraries' guide to print and databases.
Using Library Resources for International Research (PPT)
An annotated powerpoint, highlighting key restricted use databases and sample pages from the databases
