Country risk Sep 1996: Asia’s economies start to slip

In Euromoney's semi-annual ranking of country creditworthiness, the winners are the emerging countries of east and central Europe. But south-east Asian economies and even Japan ­ are looking riskier, as debt ratios worsen and monetary instability spreads. Commentary by Rebecca Dobson.

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The results look encouraging for eastern Europe and Latin America; they look worrying for Asia.

Every six months, Euromoney polls economists and political analysts for their views on the creditworthiness of almost 170 countries around the world. To that, we add an array of quantitative data, from debt ratios to access to capital markets (see detailed methodology). The result is a sensitive measure of the riskiness of investing in these economies.

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