The Online World resources handbook
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Business: Locating country specific information http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11b.html<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Online</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>resources</strong> <strong>handbook</strong><br />
Chapter 11:<br />
Getting an edge over your competitors<br />
Locating country specific information<br />
Africa<br />
China<br />
India<br />
Japan<br />
Middle East<br />
Other countries in Asia and the Pacific<br />
[INDEX] [Expanded Index] [Search] [BACK]<br />
Yet more Asian pointers<br />
Central and South America<br />
<strong>The</strong> European Common Market and Central Europe<br />
Scandinavia<br />
North America<br />
Russia and Eastern Europe<br />
Below, there are many pointers to country specific information, sorted by continent. To<br />
get more, try this trick:<br />
Search the Internet using Alta Vista. See Chapter 10). Compose a query that<br />
contains the international standard top level code for the country in question (click on<br />
link in Appendix 6 for a list of country codes). Insist that the code be present in the<br />
URLs of found <strong>resources</strong>. Qualify further by adding other words or phrases if your query<br />
gives too many hits.<br />
Example: +url:.kr<br />
"+url:" insists that the preceding string be found in the URL. "KR" is<br />
the top level code for Korea. This code is often found at the end of the<br />
location part of URLs pointing to this country, unless the server uses a<br />
non country specific code (like .net or .com). This search is likely to return<br />
links like http://kpd.sing kr.org/ (Korea Progressive Directory).<br />
Expect the two character code to exist in URLs pointing to <strong>resources</strong> in<br />
other countries also. However, the result is usually good. For example, MN<br />
is the code for Mongolia. Using "+url:.mn" in your query will also find<br />
URLs like http://www.an.cc.mn.us/depts/he/raynauds.html.<br />
Check <strong>The</strong> Economist "Country Briefing" Pages. For each country, there is succinct<br />
forecasts, economic and political profiles, core statistics, essential recent articles and<br />
in depth surveys from <strong>The</strong> Economist.<br />
Africa<br />
Brainwave for NewsNet has several interesting newsletters<br />
Africa Intelligence Report<br />
Africa News On Line<br />
political, economic and cultural developments<br />
Country Risk Guides: Sub Saharan Africa<br />
Country Risk Guides: Mid East & North Africa<br />
Monthly Regional Bulletin Southern Africa,<br />
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