China - Research

Researching China's economy - a few pointers

For current students, staff and faculty.

Portal >Library>Databases by subject >countries  also

Portal >Library>Help and Advice>Research Resource Guides>country profiles (and also the economics guide)

Databases I would try first:

• Economist Intelligence Unit - for country reports back to 1996
• Global Insight - Select Country Intelligence - then pick China. You get a Country Risk Profile, a table of social and economic indicators (downloadable), and recent country reports analysis. You can then filter on: political, economic, legal, tax, operational, security and further subsections.
• EIU Country Data - us this to download statistical time series.
• ISI Emerging Markets (campus only and only covering Brazil, Russia, India, China.) - offers data; statistics, reports and news under a variety of headings: company , industry, macroeconomics, financial markets, research and analysis. (Please click on the logout button before leaving this database!)
• 360 Search - Search a number of journal literature databases simultaneously, most notably Factiva, Business Source Complete, Emerald, Econlit and JSTOR. Try Advanced search and put China or Chinese in the title and the other keywords or phrases in the abstract. A proportion of the articles retrieved will not be available in full text. Follow the links and order these on Inter-library loan (24-48 hr service usually.) Otherwise click on the rather small tick box (top right) to retrieve only the full texts.
• Article Finder - If you know the name of a journal and want to know if we have it electronically (or in print) use Article Finder. You can also browse on journal names starting with or containing a given word.
• Business Source Complete - although this is included in 360 Search it may be worth searching individually using the wider range of features available this way. It is possible to filter results in order to just get scholarly/academic articles or use the browse options offered so you can narrow your search as you go.
• SSRN - Social Science Research network - a web service - not listed in Portal. Use it to find economics working papers. If you identify a paper and it is not available for free download take the detail and run a search in Google Scholar as listed in the database list in Portal. In this way it may link through to the full text.

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