Selection of useful Latvian and Baltic sources of macroeconomic and business information. Bank of Latvia Monthly and quarterly publications on Bank's policies; monetary and national economic indicators. Speeches, press releases, official exchange rate information. Riga Stock Exchange (Rigas fonda birza) Wall Street Journal called Riga Stock Exchange homepage the best website of its kind in Central Eastern Europe. Continuously updated stock market data. Central Statistical Bureau Government's statistical office releases official data, compliant with international statistical standards. Order numerous publications on different media. Latvian Investment and Development Agency The Latvian Investment and Development Agency provides information about investment opportunities, business conditions and serves as a "one-stop-shop" for potential investors and importers. Features investment projects and business partners. www.liaa.gov.lv Latvian Business Guide The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia has prepared a Latvian Business Guide which presents an overview of foreign direct investment, business practices, etc. Latvian Ministry of Economy - Reports The Latvian Ministry of Economy publishes a semi-annual Report on Economic Development (every December and June). It is available at www.em.gov.lv Latvian Privatization Agency Latvian Privatization Agency: privatization legislation and procedures, list of current public offerings, results of previous offerings. LURSOFT LURSOFT maintains commercial databases containing information on all companies registered in Latvia, their managers, shareholders and fixed capital, as well as credit information on all companies, which have registered movable pledges in Latvia, detailed information about court disputes between Latvian companies (since 1993). The largest full-text library of Latvian periodicals on the web. www.lursoft.lv Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry LCCI site has an extensive list of members (more than 700) and database of Latvian companies looking for partners. It informs about upcoming business promotion events and trade fairs in Latvia, and features Importers Guide Online. LCCIA does "matchmaking" between latvian and foreign companies. American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia Established in March 1993, the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia is the oldest Western Chamber in the Baltics and the second AmCham established in the former Soviet Union. Publishes Newsletter and detailed list of its members. On a regular basis organizes networking business luncheons in Riga. www.amcham.lv Baltic-American Enterprise Fund The Baltic-American Enterprise Fund (BalAEF) is a private corporation, capitalized with $50 million of U.S. public sector funds through USAID. It assists the development of the private sector in the Baltic States through financial partnership with growth oriented private companies and entrepreneurs.www.balaef.com Baltic Stock Exchanges Cooperation between stock exchanges of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and the Nordic countries. Rietumu Banka Weekly Analytic Reports Rietumu Banka publishes various analyticak reports about financial and stock markets in the Baltics. Read on web or subscribe by e-mail. The Baltic List Baltic List is a list of Baltic blue-chip securities launched on January 3, 2000 by the Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius stock exchanges. The list consists of up to 15 largest firms listed on the Official Lists of the three Exchanges, whereas no more than seven originate from one country. The composition of the list is reviewed quarterly by the Exchanges. Riga Business School Riga Business School was founded in 1992 in cooperation with the School of Management of the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ottawa. Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) offers academic training to students from the three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) in Economics and Business. The school has an international faculty and the language of studies is English. This is a full time intensive Bachelor programme with courses similar to those offered in the leading business schools of Europe. Latvian Export Control of Strategic and Dual-Use Goods and Services Customs Regulations Patent and Trademark Laws in Latvia Links to full texts of the Latvian Patent Law, Trade Mark Law and Design Patents Law.