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Business: Websites and Organisations

General Business Websites

Advertising Age

Created in 1930 to cover a burgeoning industry with objectivity, accuracy, and fairness, Ad Age is a global media brand focusing on curated creativity, data and analysis, people and culture, and innovation and forecasting.

Accounting web

This is aimed a accountancy professionals, but is valuable for the academic community. News items are updated daily and there is an archive. Access is free of charge, but you need to register to use the site.

Business.com

Business.com is a directory and search engine that focuses exclusively on business resources. The site includes company and industry profiles, business news as well as links to business-orientated web sites.

GlobalEDGE

GlobalEDGE is a global business web portal created by the Centre for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University. The site includes a collection of links to research materials, news, periodicals and trade information. It also offers a wealth of information on more than 180 countries including outlines of their political structure, economic climate, history and statistical data.

Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge

HBR's Management magazine with articles, news items, books reviews etc.

Country Information

CIA world factbook

A useful site prepared by the CIA, which gives basic economic and political information about countries around the world.

US Department of State

This American government site offers information on commercial and economic affairs, overseas opportunities and links to other sites. Particularly useful are the Background Notes which include detailed information on countries, including country's history, political conditions, economy and relations with other country.

Find Open Data

UK data from central government, local authorities and public bodies.

European Data Portal

Collection of datasets containing public sector information from public data portals across European countries, along with information on permitted re-use.

Economic Data

A millennium of macroeconomic data (Bank of England dataset)

The dataset contains a broad set of macroeconomic and financial data for the UK stretching back in some cases to the C13th and with one or two benchmark estimates available for 1086, the year of the Domesday Book.

How much is that?

Data set where you can ask questions of comparative value covering prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables. The comparators allow you to convert past values into current values (and vice versa).

World Bank Open Data

Free and open access to global development data.

IMF Data

The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.