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The home page of the World Bank offers a great wealth of free information including downloadable publications such as the World Development Report and many useful statistics on countries:
http://www.worldbank.org
The home page of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also offers downloadable publications and country information:
http://www.imf.org
Two Harvard Business School professors explain the managerial implications of the WTO dispute involving Embraer from the Opening Case study:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3782&t=globalization
A useful note on PEST Analysis:
http://www.businessballs.com/pestanalysisfreetemplate.htm
A useful short article on political risk: doesn’t seem to work KS
http://www.qfinance.com/contentFiles/QF01/gcriuxgs/14/0/political-risk-countering-the-impact-on-your-business.pdf
A useful short note on Michael Porter’s Diamond Model:
http://www.provenmodels.com/577/diamond-model---competitive-advantage-of-nations/michael-e.-porter
A 7-minute video, in which Professor Richard Lynch discusses country selection for international expansion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxlmB0CrjTA
An interesting academic article on the effects of national home base on global strategy:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Effects+of+nationality+on+global+strategy.-a020405887