Country Information

Selected Websites

• Central Bank Websites

• Central Banking Resource Center

• Country Commercial Guides

  Includes economic trends and outlooks, political environment, business and investment climate, and more.

• Eurostat (The Statistical Office of the European Communities)

  Eurostat is one of the Directorates-General of the European Commission. Its mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service. Check out the Eurostat news releases on the economy and industrial sectors.

• IMF Staff Country Reports in full text

• IMF World Economic Outlook

  Economic forecasts and analysis.

• JETRO

  Japan’s External Trade Organization provides lots of great information: nearly 400 excellent full-text Japanese market reports, the state of the Japanese economy, and the guide to investing in Japan.

• Penn World Tables

• World Bank Country Profiles

  These profiles focus on developing countries, with portraits of their development progress and more detailed reports of key indicators tracing the trends in social and ecomonic development.