E/M 276: Economic Development and World Resources: Websites

The PRI-Center provides a (free!) searchable database of Web-based documents on political risk environments; on legal issues related to arbitration, mediation and other investment dispute resolution and prevention mechanisms; research findings and analyses of political risk issues and their relationship to foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as specialized tools for practitioners. All information is catalogued by country, topic and sector.

This report examines the overall trends in political risk perceptions, foreign investment intentions, and longer-term demand for political risk insurance (PRI), especially in emerging economies.

From The Economist.

The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational level. A joint effort from the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank.

A tool created by nonprofit group founded in Sweden who wanted ways to make it easy to see world social trends over time. Users can select data to visualize.

From the World Trade Organization.

OECD.stat includes data and metadata for 34 member countries and selected non-member economies. This data covers a wide range of topics, including the economy, health, the environment, and information technology.

These reports, produced by the World Bank, examine global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing economies.

From the Institute for Management Development (IMD).