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12 Jul 2001
The Economist "Country Briefing" Pages
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), The Economist, London, UK
Supplied note:
"The Economist (Economist.Com) has launched a new
'Country Briefings' resource that contains, for the most part, free content.
Overview:
1) Reports for 60 Countries [incl. China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Japan;
Kazakhstan; Malaysia; Pakistan; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Singapore;
South Korea; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; Vietnam - ed.]
2) From a news release, 'For each country we have brought together succinct
forecasts, economic and political profiles, core statistics, essential
recent articles and in-depth surveys from The Economist.'
A Look at A Country Briefing: Australia.
Content Includes:
A) An article from a 6/22/01 EIU Country Forecast (Free);
B) Links to 16 Article From The Economist (9 of them free to read online);
C) Map;
D) Currency Converter;
E) Current Stock Market Index Numbers;
F) Factsheet from the EIU (free);
Selected Content from EIU Reports (All Free);
G) Forecast;
H) Political forces;
I) Political structure;
J) Economic structure;
K) Economic data (four years)."
URL http://www.economist.com/countries/
Link reported by: Gary Price (gprice@gwu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful