{"id":597,"date":"2024-03-01T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T10:13:55","slug":"kbs-databases-fdi-markets-warc-board-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/2024\/03\/01\/kbs-databases-fdi-markets-warc-board-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS databases: FDI Markets, WARC, Board Ex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library&#8217;s subscriptions to the following 3 databases expire this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FDI Markets<\/li>\n<li>WARC<\/li>\n<li>Board Ex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please download any work saved in these databases in preparation.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for similar data? We have a range of databases and e-resources where you can find similar data for your assignments and research.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Alternatives to FDI Markets<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/293\/statista\">Statista<\/a> &#8211; Search &#8216;FDI&#8217; and limit your search by &#8216;regions, countries, territories, industry &amp; more&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/115\/euromonitor-passport\">Euromonitor<\/a> &#8211; Find international market intelligence, including economic stats on industries, countries and consumers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datacatalog.worldbank.org\/search\/dataset\/0037712\">World development indications (WorldBank)<\/a> WDI publishes FDI net and inflow data (net, net inflows as % of GDP, net inflows as % of gross capital formation, net inflows balance of payments). The data are available from 1960-present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unctadstat.unctad.org\/EN\/\">UNCTAD Stat<\/a> Foreign Direct Investment Statistics on flows, stocks, greenfield projects, and M&amp;A by destination, industry sector, and investor\/recipient country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/data.imf.org\/?sk=9d6028d4-f14a-464c-a2f2-59b2cd424b85\">Direction of trade statistics (IMF)<\/a> Includes total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Alternatives to WARC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/195\/mintel\">Mintel<\/a> &#8211; Consumer and market research, marketing reports, industry reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/115\/euromonitor-passport\">Euromonitor<\/a> &#8211; Consumer trends, forecasting, and industry reports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/141\/ibisworld\">IBISWorld<\/a> &#8211; Industry and consumer reports, forecasting, SWOT analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Alternatives to Board-EX<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/216\/orbis\">ORBIS<\/a> Company info, corporate structures, boards of directors for large international companies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/117\/fame\">FAME<\/a> Company info, corporate structures, boards of directors for private and public companies based in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library&#8217;s subscriptions to the following 3 databases expire this month: FDI Markets WARC Board Ex Please download any work saved in these databases in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/2024\/03\/01\/kbs-databases-fdi-markets-warc-board-ex\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}