BUA 3345: International Business

This is an index developed by the Fund for Peace. It measures political stability by cohesion, economic, political, and social indicators.

Ranks all the countries of the world by the following indicators: number of security officers, homicide, incarceration, access to weapons, intensity of internal conflict, violent demonstrations, violent crime, political instability, political terror

The enforcing contracts indicator measures the time and cost for resolving a commercial dispute through a local first-instance court, and the quality of judicial processes index, evaluating whether each economy has adopted a series of good practices that promote quality and efficiency in the court system.

The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions.

Freedom House was founded in 1941 to rally policymakers and a broadly isolationist American public around the fight against Nazi Germany, and to raise awareness of the fascist threat to American security and values. They work across political divides to advance policies that strengthen democracy and protect human rights.

International IDEA launched the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Initiative in 2016. This Initiative provides evidence-based, balanced analysis and data on the state and quality of democracy for 173 countries across the world.

V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. We distinguish between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collect data to measure these principles.

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.
Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law .

The 2020 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world. Using 32 performance indicators across 11 issue categories, the EPI ranks 180 countries on environmental health and ecosystem vitality.

Based in Paris, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status with the United Nations, UNESCO and other organizations. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides information about the media freedom situation worldwide. After checking and corroborating our information, RSF issues press releases every day about abuses against journalists and about the many different kinds of censorship. Reporters without Borders compiles the The World Press Freedom Index every year to evaluate the level of freedom available to the media in 180 countries.

RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.

The FTC engages with competition and consumer protection agencies in other countries, directly and through international networks, to halt deceptive and anti-competitive business practices that affect U.S. consumers.

The Tax Foundation is the nation’s leading independent tax policy nonprofit. Since 1937, our principled research, insightful analysis, and engaged experts have improved lives through smarter tax policy.

The Tax Policy Center's Briefing Book provides comparisons of US taxes and their international counterparts. This resource includes data visualizations along with narrative explanations.

Provides a table with the latest tax rate figures for several countries including actual values, forecasts, statistics and historical data.