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Countries and regions

• Global Insights: In-depth reports providing country profiles, current/forecasted economic data and risk assessments for over 200 countries.
  
  
• Passport GMID: (Formerly - Global Market Information Database: Euromonitor) Current and forecasted sociao-economic indicators, (including GDP, banking, government expenditure, consumer expenditure/prices, disposable income, lifestyle, leisure), for over 200 countries.
  
  
• ESDS International - Economic and Social Data Service: Contains a wide range of current and archived economic datasets including IEA Energy Statistics, ILO Key Indicators, OECD Main Economic Indicators / International Development Indicators,  IMF International Financial Statistics / Balance of Payment Statistics, UNIDO Industrial Statistics and World Bank Development Indicators / Global Development Finance.

• ESDS Government: UK Datasets: Access a wide range of UK socio-economic data for population, crime, household expenditure, health and labour.
  

• Global Financial Data: Current and archived economic data (including GDP, interest rates, lending rates, exchange rates, government bonds) for over 150 countries.

• Thomson Research: Provides current economic overviews by country/region. Tip: conduct a title search and include region eg: "UK and Economy".

• OECD Statistics: Comprehensive statistical database providing a range of datasets (key indicators, economic statistics, national accounts) for OECD economies.
  
  
• OECD Publications (SourceOECD): Full text access to a wide number of books and journals published by OECD.

 

International Trade

• ESDS International: provides access to a wide range of datasets published by the OECD, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank providing annual time series data for international trade, foreign investment and commodity prices.Datasets include IMF Direction of Trade Statistics, OECD International Trade by Commodity, OECD International Direct Investment and World Bank Development Indicators.
  

• Global Financial Database: current and archived international trade data (including commodity indices/prices and exchange rates) for over 150 countries.

• OECD Statistics: various statistical datasets for international trade including Monthly Statistics of International Trade, International Trade by Commodity, International Direct Investment, Statistics on International Trade in Services and Statistics on Measuring Globalisation.
  

• Passport GMID: provides annual international trade data including imports, exports, trade balance and foreign direct investment for over 200 countries.
  

• United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics: annual trade statistics for over 130 countries detailed by commodity and partner country.