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- Business Source Complete
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TIP: Use the "Country Report" link to locate business forecasts, SWOT, and PEST analyses. - D&B Hoovers
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Integrates business and financial information from data providers throughout the world. - GlobeSmart
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In-depth information and advice about business, culture, and travel-related topics in more than 80 countries.
Note: To access GlobeSmart, choose "Register here" from the log-in screen and use your @indiana.edu e-mail address to create and register your account. - MarketLine Advantage
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Enter "Thailand" into the search box and choose Country Profiles from the drop-down menu. - Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database
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Please note: Euromonitor allows access to IU faculty, staff, and students only. Authorized users may utilize the information obtained from this resource for academic, non-commercial purposes only, and only during the time of official affiliation with IU. Passport is a global market research database encompassing historical and forecasted statistics, reports & interactive tools on industries, economies and consumers in 210 different countries and territories. Passport also tracks the effects of COVID-19 for 50 different countries
- CIA World Factbook: ThailandStatistics and overview of political, social, and economic landscape of Thailand compiled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Economic Reports and Forecasts
- Business Enabling Environment (BEE)
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Succeeds the World Bank Group’s Doing Business Project which was discontinued in 2021 because some of the data for 2018 and 2020 had been manipulated. The BEE website has links to several resources on the economic and business climate in many different countries and regions in the world. There are also links to legacy Doing Business reports from 2004 to 2020. - Economist Intelligence Union (EIU)Some freely available country analysis (historical, political, infrastructural, and economic trends, including business conditions) from The Economists' EIU website. Note that we do not subscribe to full access of this resource.
- Export.govDeveloped by the United States Department of Commerce's Commercial Service, the Export.gov website brings together resources to assist American businesses in planning their international sales strategies. The Country Commercial Guides and market research library provide information about market conditions, purchasing power, consumer trends, distribution channels, navigating entry constraints, best sectors, key contacts, and more. Coverage varies by country.
- Global Entrepreneurship MonitorA partnership between the London Business School and Babson College that provides country-specific reports and data on the state of entrepreneurship.
- International Financial Statistics (IFS)
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IFS is a monthly publication providing international and domestic finance for most countries of the world. IFS Online is cumulative and interactive.
Government and Policy Resources
- OECD LibraryThe online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an international governmental organization. Search for and extract data from across all OECD statistical databases
- PAIS Index
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PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of ThailandOfficial website of Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, English language version.