Country risk March 2010: Methodology

This year there have been some changes to the methodology for Euromoney’s biannual country risk survey. In order for the ranking to become more subjective to the opinions of economists and research heads globally, the survey weightings have been changed to increase the influence of political risk, economic performance and access to bank finance/capital markets categories. Within political risk there are now five categories the market can give their opinion on: government stability, regulation/regulatory environment, non-payment of loans/dividends/trade-related finance, non-repatriation of capital and corruption perception.

Country risk March 2010: A fragile sense of stability

This year there have been some changes to the methodology for Euromoney’s biannual country risk survey. In order for the ranking to become more subjective to the opinions of economists and research heads globally, the survey weightings have been changed to increase the influence of political risk, economic performance and access to bank finance/capital markets categories. Within political risk there are now five categories the market can give their opinion on: government stability, regulation/regulatory environment, non-payment of loans/dividends/trade-related finance, non-repatriation of capital and corruption perception.

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