Country Profiles: International Sources

• Country Risk (A.M. Best)
• Country Risk and Economic Research from Coface, provider of trade credit insurance
• Country Risk Classification (OECD)
• Country Risk Maps
• Country Risks from Delcredere | Ducroire (formerly the Belgian Export Credit Agency)
• Country Reports from the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index
• Credit ratings: how Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country
• Global Risks (World Economic Forum)
• Global Sovereign Rating Trends (Standard & Poor's, registration required)
• Global Terrorism Index Report (Institute for Economics & Peace)
• Political Risk Map from Maplecroft and Marsh (PDF)
• Sovereign Ratings History (Fitch ratings of country debt; XLS file)
• World Investment and Political Risk (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank)

And here are presentation slides (in a ZIPped file) from a course on Country Risk Assessment conducted by Dr. Michel Henry Bouchet of the Skema Business School in France.

• Corruption Map of the World
• Corruption Perceptions Index
• Global Corruption Barometer

General information on countries of the world are also available from other governments and intergovernmental sources, as well as from multinational firms offering business services:

Foreign Governments

• Country Info from the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
• Research Your Market from the New Zealand Government
• Export Markets - Countries with profiles of more than 90 nations, for Australian exporters
• Exporting Country Guides from the British Government
• Market Information from the Danish Government, for selected countries ("Marked") and industry sectors ("Sektor") - free registration required

International and Intergovernmental Organizations

• Countries and Economies (World Bank)
• Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations for a business environment summary (World Bank)
• Enterprise Surveys: Country Reports for an investment climate snapshot (World Bank)
• Financial Access Survey (International Monetary Fund)
• Global Gender Gap Report (World Economic Forum)
• Global Peace Index (Institute for Economics and Peace)
• Investment Climate Assessments (World Bank)
• Labour Force Surveys (International Labour Organization)
• The Little Data Book on External Debt 2012 (World Bank)
• The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2014 (World Bank)
• The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2014 (World Bank)
• The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015 (World Bank)
• The Little Green Data Book 2015 (World Bank)
• World Happiness Report (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network)
• World Tariff Profiles (World Trade Organization)

Commercial Firms

• Country Brand Index (FutureBrand; registration required)
• Country Economic Reports & GDP Data (Global Finance)
• Country Summaries with information about work authorization guidelines, from Fragomen Worldwide
• Doing Business In ... and Tax Guides from PKF International
• Doing Business In ... guides for about 40 countries, from the accounting firm of HLB International
• Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index from A.T. Kearney
• Grant Thornton's Global Dynamism Index
• Global Food Security Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit
• Global Services Location Index from A.T. Kearney
• Guides to Doing Business from member law firms of Lex Mundi
• Inclusive Internet Index from EIU.com
• Incorporation Comparison Chart for companies in several countries, from Trident Trust
• List of Countries by Corporate Tax Rate from Trading Economics which provides much country-level data
• KPMG's Taxation of International Executives covers taxation and immigration issues for dozens of countries
• Tax Guides and Highlights from Deloitte
• Transforming World Atlas from Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Worldwide Tax Summaries from PWC

Other Sources

• CountryEconomy.com
• Deloitte International Tax Source jurisdictions
• Doing Business Law Library (World Bank)
• Environmental Performance Index (Yale University and Columbia University)
• Global Information Technology Report (World Economic Forum)
• Information Technology Landscape in Nations Around the World (American University - now a little dated)
• Legatum Prosperity Index (Legatum Institute)