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General Information
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Arabdatenet:
www.arabdatanet.com/
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Country profiles, government contacts, private sector listings, imports, exports, news articles, a commercial directory, and investment and export opportunities from the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce.
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Arabnet:
www.arab.net
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This comprehensive site for the Arab portion of the Middle East and North Africa links to news from an Arabic point of view and information on the geography, culture, history, business, government, tourist sites, transportation and companies of the area.
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BBC News / Middle East:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/default.stm
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News and country profiles.
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CIA World Factbook:
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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This web site provides succinct background information on the countries of the Middle East including geography, government, economy, and people.
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Columbia University Middle East Studies:
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/
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Provides resources and research materials on the Middle East and North Africa compiled by the University Library. Organized by region, country and subject.
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Middle East Network Information Center:
http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/
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MENIC is a portal to a wide range of information on Middle Eastern arts, humanities, business, economy, countries, education, government, health, science, media, reference, social science, society and culture.
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U.S. State Department:
www.state.gov
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A source for political and economic affairs information, including Officers of Foreign Service Posts, Online U.S. Embassies/Consulates, Background Notes (basic country overviews), Travel Warnings, etc.
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Doing Business in the Middle East
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Country Briefings:
www.economist.com/countries
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Country profiles, forecasts, statistics, market updates, currency, news, and more from
The Economist
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Export.gov/MarketResearch:
www.export.gov/marketresearch.html
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This portal to U.S. Government resources for market research
includes country and industry reports, industry sector offices,
agricultural market research, short country information, video
market reports library, broad country information, in-country feasibility
studies, trade agreements, and trade statistics.
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Statistics
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Earth Trends:
http://earthtrends.wri.org/gsearch.cfm
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Search Earth Trends for environmental variables, data tables, country profiles, maps, and features gathered by the World Resources Institute.
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UNIDO: Industrial Production Statistics:
www.unido.org/Regions.cfm?area=GLO
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This United Nations Industrial Development Organization guide includes statistical reports on topics such as Labor Productivity and Wage Rates (at current prices, U.S.) and basic GDP, CPI and MVA statistics.
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Company Directories
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Kompass:
www.kompass.com
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Lists 53,000 products and services supplied by over 1.8 million companies in more than 70 countries. (MTO International Resource Center subscribes for full access.).
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The Minnesota Trade Office (MTO) and the Department of Employment and Economic Development do not regularly review the content of these linked sites and do not endorse or accept responsibility for information presented in these sites. This is not a comprehensive list of web sites, but ones that the MTO finds useful. Corrections can be e-mailed to
mto@state.mn.us
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