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OutlineCountry Profiles and StatisticsCountry CompetitivenessIndustry Information and NewsLingnan Wiki – BUS108Citation Tools

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Country Profiles and Statistics (1)CIA World Factbook: provides national-level information

on countries, territories, and dependencies.BBC Country ProfilesCountry Insights (from globalEDGE): provides current

information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and statistical data for 201 countries.

Business Source Premier (BSP): provides countries reports, political risk yearbooks, industry reports, market reports in addition to full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals .

ABI/Inform: EIU Viewswire provides concise overview of the economic and social political profile of individual countries as well as the regulations relevant to trade and investments.

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Country Profiles and Statistics (2)World Trade Organization (WTO): a global international

organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The web site provides information on statistics, research, publications and other services offered by the WTO.

International Financial Statistics: contains archival data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government finance and national accounts of IMF member countries.

Datastream: thousands of macroeconomic time series data from World Bank, IMF, EuroStat, EIU and local statistical offices.

DoingBusiness: benchmarking business regulations by World Bank.

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CIA World Factbook

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Access: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

BBC Country Profiles

6Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/

Country Insights (GlobalEDGE)

7Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/

Business Source Premier (BSP) – Country Reports, Political Risk Yearbooks, etc.

8Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi

ProQuest ABI/Inform (EIU Viewswire)

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World Trade Organization (WTO)

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International Financial Statistics

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Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline

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Datastream

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Country CompetitivenessWorld Competitiveness Yearbook

Printed version: [REF]  HF1414 .W67 CD-ROM version: [REF]  HF1414 .W67 Online version:

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy Doing Business: Benchmarking business

regulations by World http://www.doingbusiness.org

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World Competitiveness Yearbook

Search Library by Book Title: World Competitiveness YearbookCall Number: [REF]  HF1414 .W67 (Lingnan Only Web access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy )

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Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World Bank

Access:Access: http://www.doingbusiness.org/

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Industry Information and Newstdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade

Development Council)Tablebase: Contains tables of data relating

to companies, products, industries, brands, markets, countries and demographics from around the world on some 90 industries.

LexisNexis Academic: Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.

Factiva: Provides access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data.

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

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Tablebase

18Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebase

LexisNexis Academic

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Factiva

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Lingnan Wiki

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Citation Examples A Book

Boone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary business 2006. Australia : Thomson/South-Western.

A Journal articleCutler, D.M., Poterba, J.M. and Summers, L.H. (1990), Speculative dynamics and the role of feedback traders. American Economic Review, 80(2), 63-68.

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