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Burkina Faso: Business Guide

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Country Descriptions

Business source complete
Note: Includes country profiles from several sources: Business Monitor International, Countrywatch Inc., Datamonitor, EIU, Global Insight, Going Global, Icon Group, OECD, and PRS Group. Select Country Reports from Publications column on the right. Highlights include:

Background Notes on Countries of the World: Burkina Faso

Published by the U.S. government, includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations and travel/business information.

 

Burkina Faso Country Review

Published annually by CountryWatch, provides demographic, economic, business, and environmental data.

 

Burkina Faso Economic Competitiveness

Published by the Icon Group using vertical analysis or common-sized statements, provides estimates of the financial performance and labor productivity of countries compared to global benchmarks.  Financial analysis includes asset, liability and income structure, ratios, profitability ratios and key percentile rankings.  Labor productivity analysis includes asset-labor, liability-labor, and income-labor ratios.

Finance, Trade, & Commerce

BuyUSA.gov U.S. Commercial Services: Burkina Faso

http://www.export.gov/burkinafaso/

From the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.U.S. Commercial Service (USCS) Provides information to U.S. businesses exporting goods and services, including trade agreements, market research, trade event lists, industry specific information.

Doing Business. Benchmarking Business Regulations.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/

Produced by the World Bank, this database provides information on business regulations and their enforcement in many countries. Countries are ranked according to ease of doing business. The Doing Business Indicators are comparable across 175 economies. These indicators include starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and others.

Economist intelligence Unit, The Economist.
Note: In depth reports such as Country Finance, Country Commerce, Country Forecast, Country Monitor, etc which include economic indicators, political and business environment analysis, country risk assessment and financial and operating conditions for companies doing business globally. Type of reports vary country by country. Type the country name into the search box and select the reports tab to access the latest country reports.

Global Edge: Burkina Faso

http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/burkina-faso/

Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University ( MSU-CIBER ), globalEDGE contains country specific news, statistics, history, economics, and government data.

Index of Economic Freedom: Burkina Faso

http://www.heritage.org/Index/Country/BurkinaFaso

A Web resource evaluating the following areas: Argentina’s trade policy, fiscal burden of government, government intervention in the economy, monetary policy, capital flows and foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market.

Statistics & Government Resources

Central Bank of West African States

http://www.bceao.int/

The official Web site of the Central Bank of West African States includes information on currency rates, monetary policy, statistics and much more. In French only.

National Institute of Statistics and Demography of Burkina Faso

http://www.insd.bf/

A Web site from the National Institute of Statistics and Demography of Burkina Faso in French only.