Pakistan
Online Resources
- U.S. Commercial Service in PakistanSite developed by U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service with a market overview of Pakistan for U.S. companies. Services include providing counsel on market opportunities, overview of doing business in Pakistan, assistance in locating agents/distributors, industry information, and conduction of market research.
- Doing Business in PakistanThis page summarizes the World Bank's Doing Business 2019 data for Pakistan. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 190 economies) and the rankings by each topic. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.
- State Bank of PakistanThe State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) (Urdu: بینک دولت پاکستان) is the central bank of Pakistan. Features up-to-date news stories concerning the bank, press releases, monetary rates, and financial publications.
- Asia - Pacific Indexes / BloombergLinks to snapshots and interactive charts for specific indexes in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, and others.
Business Databases
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowExplore all aspects of business from both scholarly and non-scholarly sources (news, trade publications). This collection includes case studies, country reports, company profiles, financial data, market research reports, and SWOT analyses in addition to books, journal articles, and trade magazines. Coverage: 1886 to present. Full text.
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EconLit (Economic Literature) This link opens in a new windowSearch peer-reviewed journals, working papers from international sources, books, book chapters, and dissertations on economics topics including capital markets, econometrics, government regulations, macro- and microeconomics, monetary theory and more. Coverage: 1969 to present. Some full text.
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Economist Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess historical Economist news magazine issues, including supplements, special reports, surveys, full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers. This magazine is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1843-2020, contains primary sources. Full text.
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Financial Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess the complete run of the London edition of the Financial Times daily business newspaper from its first issue to the end of 2016, to study history, business, management, finance and politics. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included; they are shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. This newspaper is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: 1888 to 2016, contains primary sources. Full text.
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MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new windowAccess up to date information on businesses, industries, and countries for business research. Coverage: current. Full text.
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PrivCo Private Company Data This link opens in a new windowAccess business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded, United States corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. Coverage: current. Full text.