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Education in Guatemala

Dollar a Day Documentary about Education in Guatemala.
Cooperative for Education's Basic Overview of the Guatemalan School System.
UNESCO's Report on Education in Guatemala
World Bank Statistics on Education in Guatemala
World Inequality Database on Education
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NPR Story on COVID and Guatemalan Schools
CIA World Factbook
Important stats:
Literacy Rate
School Life Expectancy
Youth Unemployment

ERIC (EBSCO)
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This is an education-focused database, so simply searching Guatemala will bring back articles on education in Guatemala, but you may want to add additional search terms to find information on specific aspects of education in Guatemala. Add COVID to your search to find articles about the impact of the pandemic.
ERIC indexes and abstracts materials in education and related fields. It includes document citations, journal article citations from over 1085 professional journals (983 comprehensive coverage and 102 selective coverage) and ERIC digest full-text records. The database also includes full-text from 84 journals and full-text of most of the ERIC documents from 1993 to the present.
Education Full Text
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Try search Guatemala and education to find articles on many aspects of education in Guatemala.
Provides abstracting and indexing to core international periodicals, yearbooks, and monographs covering preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, and adult education. Full text is provided for articles from 500 titles since January 1980.
Education Research Complete
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Covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding and related social issues. Includes full text for books, monographs and education-related conference papers.
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Gender Inequality

World Economic Forum Report on Global Gender Gap
Data and analysis on the state of gender economic inequality .
World Bank: Gender Data Portal
The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency.
International Labour Organization: Data Portal on Statistics for Women
A resource provided by the United Nations, ILOSTAT contains a wide range of indicators disaggregated by sex, as well as breakdowns relevant to gender issues and indicators on gender gaps.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
International in scope, this resource provides reports and data related to gender and the economy.
McKinsey & Company Report on Economic Impact of Diversity & Inclusion
Infographics, analysis and data related to how diversity and inclusion, including gender, impacts the economy.

GenderWatch
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Full text database with a focus on how gender impacts a variety of subject areas. Use search phrases such as:
"Women owned businesses" OR "Womens employment" OR "unpaid care"
GenderWatch is a full text database of nearly 400 periodicals and other publications that focus on how gender impacts a variety of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, and special reports.

Business and Culture in Guatemala

GlobeSmart
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See report on Guatemala for in-depth information and advice about business, culture, and travel-related topics.
GlobeSmart is a web-based tool that provides access to extensive knowledge on how to conduct business effectively with people from 65 countries around the world. Developed from extensive research and interviews with business people from each country, GlobeSmart content is organized into more than 50 continuously updated topics, including communicating effectively, managing people, business protocol, local business environment, and travel information.

The GlobeSmart Profile allows the exploration of preferred work styles compared with the average styles of people from other countries on five dimensions of culture.
MarketLine Advantage
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Choose Country Profiles from the dropdown next to the search box and then enter Guatemala in the search box to find a PEST report about the political, economic, social, and technological structure of the country.
MarketLine offers a collection of company, industry, financial, product and country information, research and data extending over all major marketplaces and industries. A searchable online business information service using published desk research and secondary data sources to create three different types of profiles. Company profiles include company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news, and commentary. Industry profiles contain: 5-year historical and 5-year forecast market values and/or volumes; market segmentations; company and/or product market shares; explanatory text identifying major trends and significant growth points; and analysis of each market's competitive landscape, including main players, distribution channels, and regulatory issues. Each country profile includes a description of the country's economic performance and GDP, an assessment of its potential for development, and detailed market and industry analysis of the country's business environment. Profiles are supplemented by a "news & comment" section.

Hofstede Insights
This Hofstede Consulting widget that allows the user to quickly compare cultural attributes affecting business among various countries. Type “Guatemala” and “United States” to see how they compare
World Bank
Economic snapshot of Guatemala provided by the World Bank.

Nexis Uni
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Includes articles from hundreds of international media outlets. In the Advanced Search, select "News" Then enter terms such as Guatemala AND "business culture".

Global Edge

Donor Motivation and Retention

Mintel Reports
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Please note: Mintel allows access for IUB faculty, staff, and students only. Market research reports covering US and International markets with an emphasis on consumer products and industries. Note: Users must create a personal profile in order to download content from Mintel. Please see more below for additional instructions.
Mintel Reports offers product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports may be downloaded as RTF (rich-text format) files; tabular data may also be saved as CSV (comma-separated values) files.

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4. After logging in, downloading is available by either using the direct download option for a report or by using the My Presentations feature which also offers the direct download option for the report.

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Education Full Text
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Research database for education students, professionals and policymakers. It includes full-text education journals that cover the essentials of education and related fields of study, including in-depth coverage of special education.
Provides abstracting and indexing to core international periodicals, yearbooks, and monographs covering preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, and adult education. Full text is provided for articles from 500 titles since January 1980.
Business Source Complete
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Regional, national and international business, financial, banking and industry publications.
Provides access to peer-reviewed business journals, covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886.
EBSCO Management Collection
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Full text articles from 1,200 business sources and 10,000 company profiles.
Contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 quality magazines and journals. The database includes full text sources ranging from general publications such as Fortune and Money to trade publications such as American Demographics, Chemical Week, Electronic Business and Restaurant Hospitality. The collection of titles includes top management journals such as Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review and Harvard Business Review. In addition, this database also includes detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1984.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
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Tool for business students and researchers, providing insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Contains full text for business journals, magazines and reference books, case studies and company profiles.
Also includes videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, a social network site for high-tech entrepreneurs.

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