INTB 26500 International Business Operations

Market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries prepared by trade and industry experts at U.S. embassies worldwide.

Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University (MSU-CIBER), It is web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.

Links to organizations such as the UN, World Bank, etc as well as country specific statistical sources.

Link to Central Banks for countries around the world. Useful for getting statistics, exchange rate information and news and policy briefings.

Users select a country from an interactive world map or a searchable menu. The application generates a country factsheet with graphs and tables showing the latest data on U.S. trade and investment with that country. Statistics can be downloaded in MS-Excel or .pdf formats.

Provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.

Guides to doing business in countries where HSBC Bank has a presence.

Portal containing numerous interlinked resources covering market research, areas of trade, market analyses, statistics, etc. Links to a wide variety of resources

News, calendar and links to economic releases from a wide variety of countries.

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY), first published in 1989, is a comprehensive annual report and worldwide reference point on the competitiveness of countries. It provides benchmarking and trends, as well as statistics and survey data based on extensive research. It analyzes and ranks countries according to how they manage their competencies to achieve long-term value creation. An economy’s competitiveness cannot be reduced only to GDP and productivity because enterprises also have to cope with political, social and cultural dimensions. Governments therefore need to provide an environment characterized by efficient infrastructures, institutions and policies that encourage sustainable value creation by the enterprises.