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News

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.

Contains articles from scholarly and trade journals, newspapers, and magazines as well as industry and company reports
To find news about Ireland:
- Enter Ireland in the search box and select GE Geographic Terms
Select Newspaper or Periodical under Publication type
Sort results by most recent.
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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. You must first self-register using your @darden.virginia.edu email address here

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.

Click on Countries and then Ireland.
Offers basic information on history, government, military, economy, communications, transportation, demographics, and social conditions.
Published by the US Central Intelligence Agency.

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.

Powerpoint presentation with sections on current events, political outlook, economic outlook, and demographic information.
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Culture

globalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. Partially funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant (CIBE program), globalEDGE™ is your source for global business knowledge. To learn more about the history and content of globalEDGE, please visit our history page. the countries in each classification.

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.

Information on the business landscape, trade regulations, investment climate, and political & economic environment of 125 countries
Designed for US companies seeking opportunities outside the United States.

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.

Consult the latest Ireland Country Profile from IHS Markit, particularly the portions on the economic landscape
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Banking and Finance

European Central Bank

Located in Frankfurt Germany, the European Central Bank determines monetary policy for the Eurozone.
This site features research publications, statistical data, and other valuable information.

Euronext

Pan-European marketplace.

Travel Guides

IRELAND 12 by Fionn Davenport
ISBN: 9781743216866

Publication Date: 2016-03-15

Statistics & Data

EMIS (Connect to Darden VPN)
Search this database for information about emerging market countries, companies, industries, and economic conditions. Click on Client Login icon to get to database.
Eurostat
Provides statistical data and research on the European Union. Publications include the Eurostat Yearbook, the Eurostat Regional Yearbook, and the Statistical Atlas.
Set up a free user account for more flexibility in selecting data.
OECD i-Library
Explore this site for statistical databases, reports, and 19 periodicals published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Economic Surveys, issued biennially for many countries, provide tables and discussion on overall economic health and social conditions.
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.

Central Statistics Office
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is Ireland's national statistical office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland’s people, society and economy.

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.

Darden Abroad

Global Voices of Darden: The International Perspective at Darden is a blog by the Darden Center for Global Initiatives.