BUS5 187: Global Dimensions of Business

Statistics on banking, securities, derivatives, foreign exchange, external debt and payments.

Created by the World Bank, the Doing Business In website provides detailed reports on doing business in a variety of countries and regions. The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 185 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It provides statistics on countries in the European Union that allow comparisons between regions, such as GDP per capita, real GDP growth rate, total population, unemployment rate, and inflation rate.

Limited access to data on IMF lending, exchange rates, commodities and trade.

Investing Across Borders is a World Bank Group initiative comparing regulation of foreign direct investment around the world. It presents quantitative indicators on economies' laws, regulations, and practices affecting how foreign companies invest across sectors, start businesses, access industrial land, and arbitrate commercial disputes.

Limited access to data on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and select non-member countries on topics ranging from agriculture, development, finance, labor, prices, industry, social welfare indicators and the public sector.

Unrestricted access to demographic, national accounts, Monthly Bulletin of [economic] Statistics, Millennium Indicators, Social Indicators and Service Trade Statistics.

The World Bank's Data Catalog provides access to over 8,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.