IBS101 - Introduction to International Business

The Global Resource Directory offers a rich collection of thousands of international business- and trade-related resources, which we have selected for their content and usability and organized into the categories below to facilitate your research.

Let’s start with the good news: Last year, the global economy defied expectations in potentially history-making ways. Amid wretched conditions—wars, surging inflation, and the biggest interest-rate surge in 40 years—the global economy did not suffer a significant downturn. It merely slowed. This was an unfamiliar plotline: It implies the world economy has grown more resilient in ways we might not yet fully understand.

EIU's operational risk scenarios evaluate the events that could have a severe impact on its core economic and geopolitical forecasts, challenging the operations of businesses worldwide.

The Global Risks Report 2024 presents the findings of the Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which captures insights from nearly 1,500 global experts. The report analyses global risks through three time frames to support decision-makers in
balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.

In late April, for the 75th time in a row, America blocked a mundane motion at the World Trade Organization to fill vacancies on the panel that is the final arbiter of disputes among the group's members. The relentless vetoes, obscure as they might sound, have in effect completely defanged the WTO for almost five years.