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by Daniel Hanne, Business Librarian
909-869-4352;
dhanne@csupomona.edu
Issue Number 26 Spring Quarter, 1997
by Daniel Hanne, Business Librarian (x4352), E-mail
dhanne@csupomona.edu
Inform on World Wide Web:
http://www.csupomona.edu/library/publications/inform/home.html
The following are companies that market services which offer advice on country or political risk. They also offer a limited amount of data free over the Internet:
Business Monitor Online
Business Monitor, London
http://www.businessmonitor.co.uk/
The Risk Management choice will allow you to select a "Country
Profiles" or a "Political Commentary" page.
Corruption Perception Index. Transparency International (TI),
Berlin
http://www.GWDG.DE/~uwvw/icr.htm
The Corruption Perception Index ranks countries for corruption. On
the scale a 10 is "totally clean" and a 0.0 is "totally corrupt": In
1996 New Zealand was first with 9.43 and Nigeria last with 0.69 (the
US, with 7.66, was 15th).
Country Risk Analysis.
Campbell R. Harvey, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Country_risk/couindex.htm
Country Risk Analysis presents a large amount of full-text country
risk data for which as of this writing there is no fee. The data
include narrative, charts, and graphs on individual countries.
Global Risk Assessments, Inc.
Jerry Rogers, College of Business Administration, Cal Poly Pomona
http://www.grai.com
Select GRA Research Hotlinks in left-hand column for "one stop
shopping" for Internet sites relevant to country and political risk
research.
Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Ltd. (PERC)
Hong Kong
http://www.asiarisk.com
PERC has a "Library" where the public can "upload" documents. This
site also has free "Country Outlooks: Country Risk Reports &
Economic Indicators" for China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, The
Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The PERC
home page also offers links.
Political Risk Services (PRS), East Syracuse, NY
http://www.prsgroup.com
PRS provides some brief country information free through its Internet
site
And more...:
CyberAtlas
http://www.cyberatlas.com
CyberAtlas is the site to visit for statistics on the size and scope
of the Internet itself. The site provides data on subjects such as
demographics, usage patterns, advertising, hardware, software, and
site building. There is also a glossary and links to other Internet
resources.
BRINT (Business Research in Information and Technology).
http://www.brint.com
BRINT provides access to "full-text articles & papers, magazines
& journals, case studies and tools, and thousands of other
resources...of interest to Business, Technology & Information
professionals." Search through menus or enter terms through a
sophisticated search engine. There are a lot of choices on this site
and sometimes you go through a number of menus but, trust me, BRINT
does bring quality full-text articles.
CyberJazz
http://www.cyberjazz.com
This site announces itself as being for "Fun, Entertainment, And
Totally Useless Information!!" but it is considerably more serious
than that, and well-designed. It has links to a number of general
reference resources, the weather, news, as well as a selection of
HTML resources. It offers Internet search engines. And you can select
and send from its choice of postcards.
University of Iowa Libraries
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gw
The "gateway to the Internet" page combines information about using
the Internet with links to specific sites; in addition to links to
search engines (both menu and query systems), there are links to
advice on using search engines.
The Nonprofit Handbook, 2d ed., is in two volumes: The larger of the two, edited by Tracy Daniel Connors, is the Nonprofit Handbook: Management (Ref HD 62.6 N662 1977b). The main parts cover strategic planning, quality management and leadership; human resources, communication, fund raising, and information management; and accounting, finance, and legal issues. The other, edited by James M. Greenfield, is the Nonprofit Handbook: Fund Raising (Ref HD 62.6 N662 1977). Its main sections cover managing fund development, fund raising readiness, annual giving program, major giving program, select audience and environments, and support ingredients. Both volumes have lists and biographies of the contributors as well as comprehensive indexes.
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