Marketing: Country Research

Provides comprehensive and updated information on China’s economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels. Also includes Statistical Yearbooks and Census Data.

Medium- and long-term economic and business forecasts for Asian countries.

Coverage: 1940 - present
The IMF's IFS Online contains statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance for over 200 countries and areas. Data includes balance of payments, international liquidity, money and banking, exchange rates, national accounts, and more.

Contains volume and value sales statistics for consumer, industrial and services markets across 82 countries worldwide. It also provides a wide range of data on business enterprise including consumer market sizes, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands as well as market research reports, country profiles and socio-economic statistics.

Covers history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country, detail profiles of selected cities, and chronological lists of world events.

Coverage: 1987 - present
Compiled by the Institute for Management Development (IMD), it provides annual reports on the competitiveness among 57 countries by analyzing economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency and infrastructure.

Coverage: 1960 - present
Statistics form the World Bank's WDI contains more than 800 development indicators.

Fulltext access to more than 1,400 yearbooks published in China.