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News

Access World News
Search here for news from a broad list of sources, including the Richmond Times Dispatch and Daily Progress. Does not contain the business specific features of such news databases as Factiva and Lexis Nexis Academic.

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Factiva
Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages. Factiva also houses succinct company profiles, Factiva's indexing tools and more.
Economist.com
The Economist offers a full range of analysis, including special reports, data journalism, podcasts, films and audio versions.

Country Overview

World Factbook
Turn to the World Factbook for information on 267 countries. Provides background and data related to history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and international relations for each country.

Culture

GoinGlobal

For cultural advice, go to Career Guides, Country Career Guides and select Chile. Click on Living There and select section on Cultural Advice.
This database also provides information on jobs and internships. To view these, select Internships or Jobs from the menu bar. Limit your search by country and enter keyword MBA..

Business and the Economy

Country Commercial Guides
Learn more about market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs for over 125 countries. These reports are prepared by trade and industry experts at US embassies worldwide.
Business Source Complete
Search this database for articles in 1,200 business journals, magazines, and trade journals. Also provides industry reports, country profiles, and company SWOT analyses. Business Source Complete is often the best place to start your research.

Provides full text or pdf articles from the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
EMIS (Connect to Darden VPN)
Search this database for information about emerging market countries, companies, industries, and economic conditions.
International Strategic Analysis
Provides reports on geopolitics and international economics. Includes country reports, region reports, economic forecasts, risk forecasts, weekly global update, and annual ISA Global Economic and Risk Outlook.

Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile)

On the English version homepage, scroll down to select Publications or Statistics and Indicators.

PESTLE Reports

Business Source Complete
Search for Marketline Country Reports this will include a PESTLE analysis section, you can also search by Marketline Country reports and then country name.

Provides full text or pdf articles from the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, California Management Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
EMIS (Connect to Darden VPN)
Search for PESTLE and country name in the main search box within EMIS, these are also Marketline country reports. Please note that EMIS does not carry a comprehensive list of MarketLine Country Reports you may need to consult Business Source Complete.

Travel Guides

Fodor's Essential Chile by Fodor's Travel Fodor's Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781640970380

Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island 11 by Carolyn McCarthy; Cathy Brown; Mark Johanson; Kevin Raub; Regis St Louis
ISBN: 9781786571656

Publication Date: 2018-10-16
DK Eyewitness Chile and Easter Island by DK Eyewitness
ISBN: 9781465468000

Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Chile and Easter Island 10 by Planet Lonely
ISBN: 9781742207803

Publication Date: 2015-10-20
Fodor's Essential Chile by Fodor's Fodor's Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781640973572

Publication Date: 2022-07-05

Statistics & Data

CEPALSTAT Databases and Statistical Publications

Provides data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Using the Statistics and Indicators search allows you to search for specific indicators for one or more countries.
The Country Profiles feature provides preformatted data on selected indicators.

Gallup Analytics
Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll.
IMF eLibrary Data (International Monetary Fund)
Turn to this database for economic time series data from more than 200 countries and areas. Includes four datasets: International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade, Balance of Payments, and Government Finance Statistics. The International Financial Statistics dataset includes main global and country economic indicators, exchange rates, and fund accounts data. Annual series, when available, begin with 1948 data; quarterly and monthly series, when available, begin with 1957 data.
World DataBank (World Bank)
Explore this database if you need statistics related to social and economic development. Contains World Bank time series data for 227 countries and 18 country groups. Features 60 databases. The most frequently used are: World Development Indicators; Education Statistics; Gender Statistics; Health Nutrition and Population Statistics; Poverty and Equity Database. The Doing Business database provides measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies. Look for various links to the tutorial and/or the FAQs page.
UN Data (United Nations)
Students and researchers needing economic and socio-demographic data should consider looking at this database. It provides more than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world.