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International Business Web-Portal: globalEDGEâ„¢

Hartmut Buettner @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet

globalEDGEâ„¢[1] is a knowledge web-portal for international business professionals from around the world. According to their information the site offers:

Global Resources: more than 5,000 online resources, e.g. Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS), Market Potential Index (MPI) and glossary
Countries: executive memos, statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions on 199 countries around the world
US States: [...]

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Doing Business – Measuring business regulations

Hartmut Buettner @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The Doing Business project of the World Bank Group has been tracking regulatory reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level by measuring their impact on 10 indicator sets[1] since 2004. Almost 1,000 reforms have been captured until now.
Covering [...]

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