Research Guides: Information Resources for International Study & Study Abroad (Summerville Campus): Financial

Lava at Bessastadir by Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval. Retrieved from ARTstor.

“[Iceland’s] economy has begun to move toward recovery in the wake of the financial crisis and the ensuing economic contraction. Furthermore, the government is aiming at fiscal consolidation through increased taxes and bringing down some tax deductions. The government aims to balance the budget in 2012 and generate a surplus by 2014.”

Iceland, Country Profile Series. In-depth PESTLE insights, 2012 retrieved from Business Source Complete

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Business Source Complete
This database contains country reports from various sources, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, Business Monitor International and the OECD. Enter the name of the country in the search box and use the pull-down menu to ‘subject’. Look below the search boxes for the limiters and select ‘publication type’ ‘country report.’ Data includes:

· Real GDP and GDP per capita;
· Money, Prices and Interest Rates;
· Government Spending and Taxation;
· Trade and the Exchange Rate;
· Agricultural Production and Consumption.

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EconLit with Full Text
Full-text articles on capital markets, country studies, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.

International Monetary Fund
The IMF, jointly with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank, disseminates data on external debt, which are obtained from national sources and from creditor and market sources. The data cover the external debt of developed, developing and transition countries and territories, and also include statistics on selected foreign assets.
The World Bank
which has released their library of data free to the public. Searching by country yields information on finance, world development indicators, projects and operations, and climate.

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Information Resources for International Study & Study Abroad (Summerville Campus): Financial

Lava at Bessastadir by Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval. Retrieved from ARTstor.

FINDING FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Currency Converters

World Bank Country Profiles