Research for Alumni

Business Source Alumni Edition, offers access to Country reports from a variety of publishers including Country Watch, MarketLine and the PRS Group. To access this content easily, keyword search on the name of the country you are looking for information on and then limit your search to publication type: Country Report.
Availability: Global

Use the Country Statistics database to access macroeconomic and socio-economic time-series data for a large number of countries.
To access this content, once in MarketLine select Databases>Country Statistics. There is also a City Statistics database.
You can also use MarkeLine to access their Country Analysis Reports (a selection of these are also available on the Business Source Alumni Edition database). For some countries they offer a PEST analysis for others it is a PESTLE Analysis.
Availability: Campus only

Mergent contains a lot of economic time-series data that can be easily downloaded into Excel. It has data for Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, UK and US. The data availability varies from country to country. To see what's available select the Economics tab at the top of the first Mergent Screen. Country Insight reports are also available.
Availability: Global

Proquest contains a number of publications and data sources that can be useful when looking for economic data. These include the EIU's Country Data and EIU Views Wire (both can be accessed from within Proquest, or directly from your A-Z list of library databases). Proquest also includes Oxford Analytica's Country Profiles and Economic and Industry Forecasts from Oxford Economics.
To access this content more easily in Proquest, once in the database select browse>country reports.
Availability: global

This network is funded by several societies and also economics departments at a number of UK universities. It has compiled a useful list of sources of free economic (and related) data

Data and research from the International Monetary Fund.

Access to some data and reports from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Some content is only available to subscribers