International Business Research

Through FSU Libraries:

• FSU Library Catalog : EIU Country Reports
• Business Source Complete 
• CountryWatch  
• Europa World Plus

Through College of Business:

• Bloomberg (restricted to COB Finance Users)
  ...Economic and financial forecasts for 40 countries 
   

Free:

• CIA The World Factbook
   
• globalEDGE (from Michigan State Univ)
  Knowledge web-portal on global business resources and activities. Information by country, trade bloc, economic classification, industry and the US States avaialable on Global Insights tab. 
   
• NationMaster
  For country comparisons across a number of topics
   
• Country Insights (from Centre for Intercultural Learning)
  For do's and dont's and other topics such as communication styles, stereotypes, display of emotion, etc. 
   
• Country Studies Collection (Library of Congress) 
  A bit outdated, but good for historical information. PDF available. 
   
• Country Analysis Briefs (from US Department of Energy) 
  Substantive reports on individual countries and energy-related topics
   
• International organizations such as UN, WTO, World Bank are good sources for country information. 

Through College of Business:

• Bloomberg (restricted to COB Finance users)
  ...Enter CSDR

Free:

• Standard & Poor's
• Moody's (Sovereign and supranational)
• Fitch 
• A.M. Best 

 Tip: Credit rating: How Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country

 (From TheGuardian.com)

From Economist Intelligence Unit, Ltd. through ProQuest database. Add the name of a country to the search box. 
A typical EIU Country Report includes political and economic forecast for the next 5 years. 

On the homepage of the BSC database, click on "Country Reports" link on the right side of the screen. 
Then click on "Country" tab on the top. If you are looking for information on a region such as Latin America 
or Baltic States,  click on "Region" tab.