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Mergent Online: Country Insight
Mergent Online: Country Insight Mergent Online: Country Insight
- Provides essential political, economic and commercial information on over 130 countries worldwide.
- Supplies in-depth analysis to assist in monitoring international markets.
- Identifies changes in business risk and provide detailed analysis of a country’s prospects in the short to medium term.
- Presents data in a clear and consistent format, facilitating comparison.
Mergent Online: Country Insight reports are compiled by a team of political and economic experts, all of whom hold postgraduate degrees.
In addition to written analysis, each report ranks the country in question using our proprietary Country Risk Indicator. The reports also contain both short- and long term economic forecasts and use charts and tables to complement the text.
Information available in country reports includes:
- Country Risk Indicator Summary - explanation of the country’s relative risk rating, including positive and negative factors affecting the country’s risk profile.
- Key Information - key statistics covering GDP, government finances, balance of payments, cross country development comparisons and non numerical information.
- Executive Summary - two-page briefing on four principal areas of risk: political, macroeconomic, external economy and commercial.
- Political Risk - analysis of government stability, policy-making expertise, institutional determinants of good government, socio-political harmony and external relations, plus a two-year forecast.
- Macroeconomic Risk - commentary on short-term economic outlook and interest rate movements, together with a study of the country’s long-term economic growth potential.
- External Economic Risk - elucidation of balance of payments trends, plus default and currency risk evaluations and a two-year forecast.
- Trade Environment - current account regulations and barriers, and potential for risk management and control.
- Commercial Risk - analysis of aggregate buyer risk, combined with an assessment of financial sector risk and non-traditional risks such as corruption, plus a two-year forecast.
- Investment Environment - explanation of capital account regulations and barriers, regulations concerning direct investment flows, portfolio investment (equities & bonds) and a description of general investment conditions.
