Which is the most competitive nation and why? What do I need to know to do business in China? What are Swedish managers like?  Which are the most common languages spoken in India? What’s the crime rate of Croatia?
 
These kinds of questions can be answered using the following sources, all available from the library:

• Country reports, including the Economist Intelligence Unit’s company profiles (these can be accessed on the Business Source Premier database)
• The World Competitiveness Yearbook (in print and electronic versions)
• Series of international statistics from organizations and publishers such as Euromonitor, OECD, World Bank and International Financial Statistics
• Academic journals and papers (for a cultural understanding of international business)
• Practical guides to doing business abroad, such as:

Deloitte country guides (http://www.deloitte.com/tax  )
Doing business: World Bank (http://www.doingbusiness.org/ )
HLB International country guides (http://www.hlbi.com/DBI_list.asp )
Baker Tilly International Doing business in… booklets (http://www.bakertillyinternational.com/Default.aspx?page=1435 )

(These practical guides are freely available on the internet and are typical of the kinds of high quality free resources we select and categorise at Library > E-Resources > Selected Internet Resources ).

You can access sources of country information at Library > E-resources > By subject .