International Business: Country Studies

Political, geographic, economic, and sociological summaries organized by country.

Click on countries and retrieve background information and up to date reports on all countries.

Recent news articles, country profiles, forecasts, fact sheets, and economic data.

Reports on individual countries and special topics.

The report highlights critical gaps and challenges of the region in achieving the SDGs and inform inter-governmental and inter-agency regional decision making in support of implementing the 2030 development agenda in the region.

“Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.”

The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual guide published by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's No. 1 think tank.

The World Happiness Report ranks more than 150 countries by their happiness levels. The World Happiness Report 2024 ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.