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The Resources listed will help you locate information on specific industries, topics or companies. Most of them of reasonable intuitive to use, but training and assistance is available on request, please contact the WBG Library for help.

EIU
All EIU Resources: including Country Risk, World Investment and EIU Market Indicators.
EMIS
(IFC and World Bank only). Formerly ISI Emerging Markets. Delivers company and industry information, relevant proprietary content, reports, statistics, fundamental news, customised alerts, an advanced search engine, and analytics to help understand emerging markets more clearly. 100+ emerging countries covered.
Factiva
Factiva, a Dow Jones company, provides global news and business information to all World Bank Group and IMF staff. Factiva service is for internal use only. Registration is required. Users can search 33,000 authoritative sources in different language interfaces.
FitchConnect
IFC staff can access FitchRatings and FitchSolutions (formerly BMI) reports and Interactive Datatools. Requires registration: contact Content Development Team (email: jlcd@librarynetwork.org ) to request an account. Already have an account? Go to http://www.fitchconnect.com
GPCA: Global Private Capital Association (formerly EMPEA)
IFC STAFF ONLY
IFC staff may self register using their official @ifc.org email address.
GPCA is the authoritative, non-commercial provider of research on private capital activity and trends in global markets, covering Asia (including China and India), Latin America, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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GPCA’s global research team covers fundraising, investment and exit activity by private equity, venture capital, private credit, infrastructure and real assets fund managers and their co-investors, including institutional and corporate investors.

Research products include bi-annual regional and country Data Insights, sector- and strategy-specific reports and investor surveys.
Moody's and S&P Ratings
(IFC Only) These services are not available at your desktop. However, IFC staff may request rating reports by contacting the WBG Library. email: ladevelopment@librarynetwork.org
CARE Ratings
The Library does not have a subscription to this service.
Selected ratings and press releases may be viewed at no charge. Full text of ratings reports requires payment or subscription.
CRISIL Ratings
The Library does not have a subscription to this service.
You may view the current rating on the website and can retrieve "rating rationale" reports at no charge.
Access to the full detailed credit report requires payment.
ICRA India Ratings
The Library Network does not have a subscription to this service, but many of their ratings & reports are free on this website.
ICRA Ratings_SECTOR reports
ICRA Nepal Ratings
The Library Network does not have a subscription to this service, but many of their ratings & reports are free on this website.
India Ratings & Research
The Library Network does not subscribe to this service, but press releases and selected information are available free.
World Bank Group - Documents & Reports Internal
Repository of WBG Documents & Reports
formerly: Imagebank
OECD iLibrary
Provides online access to the full-text of all OECD periodicals, monographs, annuals, outlooks, policy reviews, conference proceedings, analytical reports, guidelines, working papers, as well as the full content of OECD.Stat. Our license includes access to the International Energy Agency (IEA) databases. For best results, please use Google Chrome. Users have reported issues with Internet Explorer.
IFC- AML/CFT - Business Risk & Compliance
Includes AML/CFT statements, procedures and guidance tools.
IDD Assessments, Integrity Risk Flags, etc

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IFC - News Headlines (Factiva)

NOTE: to open the full text of the news articles below, you must be a registered user of Factiva. If you have not yet registered, please do so at https://library.worldbankimflib.org/en/find/factiva.html There is no cost for WB or IFC staff to register for Factiva.

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