Country overviews of political conditions, foreign relations, history, human rights, economic overview, status of women, foreign investment climate, government structure, principal govt. officials, freedom rankings, defense forces, rule of law, control of corruption, trends, energy consumption, environmental data, energy profile, etiquette, & cuisine.
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International Business. The Doing Business reports series provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. These reports provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in each of the indicator areas.
Comprehensive country and intergovernmental organization profiles. Browse by regime type, party system, electoral system, system of government or region. 2008-2011, 2014-present.
Covering nearly 200 countries, the yearbook is filled with reports from the U.S. Department of State. Entries typically cover politicians, geography, defense, agriculture, and trade. Includes information on passport applications, regulations and duties, international health and disease, national holidays, and more. Coverage: 2006-2007, 2013-present.
Complete electronic editions of more than 5,300 U.S. and international news sources from 140 countries on six continents. It features most major U.S. news sources circulation, including Texas newspapers, plus many hard-to-find local and regional titles that are unavailable elsewhere.
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
World Bank's new data catalog provides access to over 3,000 datasets and 14,000 indicators and includes microdata, time series statistics, and geospatial data.
Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. A wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labor market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.