Economic and Political Risk

Business Librarian

Irene Weiner

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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window IBISWorld helps identify business operating risks and opportunities across 700 industries at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Each industry report provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks.
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1. From the top bar, select: Risk Ratings
2. Select: US Risk Ratings Reports
3. From the NAICS Industry page, select the industry you're interested in.
For example, you can scroll down to: Transportation and Warehousing in the US (37 Reports) and select:

48111b - Domestic Airlines in the US

4. The result page will provide several aspects of the risks of that particular industry.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

BMI (Business Monitor International) Country Risk Report
Provides analysis of global industries and research on leading companies in Emerging Markets. Covers all key global developments influencing company strategy, including country, regional, and global supply.
See alternative access to BMI under the ABI/Inform Collection tab.

The PRS Group International Country Risk Guide
IBC's International Country Risk Guide provides in-depth analysis of every factor that could affect business, trade or investments in countries around the world. Each report covers politics, economic policy, extensive analysis of economic trends, and an assessment of the country's financial condition. The Guide is useful for multinational business executives. bankers, importers and exporters and fund managers. More than 130 countries get the in-depth coverage every year. In addition, countries are monitored for changing conditions throughout the year.

Follow these steps to access either of these resource:

1. In the large Search area near the top of the page, type: publication and BMI in parenthesis.

eg: publication (bmi)
OR:
publication (PRS Group International Country Risk Guide)

2.Search
3. In the results page, use the column on the left to Narrow your results further.

4. If you are looking for country information, use the Geography link.

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5. If you want to narrow by industry, use the Industry link.

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6. Use as many limiters as possible to narrow your results further. For example, if you want to know about the Economy of the country, use the Subject link.

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7. If you need a specific company, type the company name in the Search Within Results box.

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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. Subject areas include: accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Indexing and abstracting from 1965-present. Some cases indexing go back further than 1965. Updated daily.

Country Watch
Comprehensive and regularly updated reports on every recognized independent country. Robust reports include coverage of a given country's history, economy, government, political landscape including foreign policy orientation, business and investment climate, socio-cultural scene including key demographic features, and pertinent environmental issues.

In the first space, type: country review
In the second space, type: name of your country

Political Risk Yearbook
There are several ways to find information from this resource.

Method #1
1. In the first search box, type: Political Risk Yearbook.
2. Change the field label to: SO Publication Name
3. In the second search box, type: your country.

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Method #2 (for a broader search)
1. In the first search box, type: your country AND risk.
2. Change the field label to: SU Subject.

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Business Searching Interface This link opens in a new window
In addition, the following source types are included: academic journals, SWOT analyses, trade publications, industry profiles, company profiles, market research reports and product reviews.

1. From the opening screen, under Browse, select:Country Reports.
2. From the Publications screen, select the Country and Type: your country in the "Browse for" box,

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Searches three ABI-INFORM databases: Dateline, Global, and Trade and Industry. Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Search nearly 8,000 publications worldwide, almost 80% available in full text. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective from 1923-present. Full text coverage of the Wall Street Journal is also included from 1984-present.

Embedded within this database, you'll find:
EIU Viewswire AND Business Monitor International (BMI) Industry Reports.

EIU Viewswire
Continuously updated political, economic, and financial risk analysis for 120 countries. In addition to social and economic indicators, includes summary measures of economic, market, and political risk

Follow these steps to access this resource:

1. From the Advanced Search screen, slide to the top left and select the 3-bar menu.

2. Select: BROWSE

2. Under Country Reports, select: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Viewswire

3. In the next screen, you will have a choice to search by your country or by topics.

Best's Credit Ratings & Criteria Center A.M. Best identifies the various factors within a country that may directly or indirectly affect an insurance company. Countries are placed into one of five tiers, denoting a stable environment with the least amount of risk, to countries that pose the most risk and, therefore, the greatest challenge to an insurer's financial stability, strength and performance.
COFACE Country Risk Assessments While some of its services are fee-based, a good deal is, surprisingly free, including a country rating service. Once you enter a country name, you will have access to its risk assessment as well as its business climate rating. A chart includes the major macro economic indicators for the country.
DataGob: Governance Indicators Database Provides a user-friendly interface for accessing most of the publicly available indicators related to governance. It contains approximately 400 governance indicators produced by 25 different sources for a global sample of countries whose coverage depends on the source. These indicators are produced by multilateral organizations, NGOs, private firms, and academic institutions. A sample of indicators include: growth competitiveness, bribery and corruption issues, and business regulatory environment.
Global Corruption Report (GCR) is one of "Transparency International’s" flagship publications, bringing the expertise of the anti‐corruption movement to bear on a specific corruption issue. Most recent reports have focused on corruption in climate change, the private sector, water and the judiciary.
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Includes information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2016 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 170,000 cases.
Index of Economic Freedom Includes country-by-country analyses on 161 countries and data on trade policy, fiscal burden, governmental intervention, monetary policy, foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market. Published by the Heritage Foundation (a conservative non-partisan think tank) in cooperation with Dow Jones.
Market Potential Index The purpose of this study is to rank, with a U.S. focus, the market potential of 87 identified countries and to provide guidance to the U.S. companies that plan to expand their markets internationally.
Transparency International Transparency International is "the only international non-governmental organization devoted to combating corruption. In addition to news and special reports, ongoing surveys on various types of corruption including a global corruption barometer, a bribe payers survey, and a corruption perceptions index. Publishes Global Corruption Report which presents chapters on various forms of corruption as well as country reports for approximately 40 countries.
World Bank From this this site you can find economic and social indicators about countries around the world.
Enterprise Surveys This site aggregates economic data, including business environment and performance indicators, on 130,000 companies from 135 countries. The Enterprise Surveys data series is produced by The World Bank. The data for these surveys were collected via face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners in over 130,000 companies in 135 economies, covering countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and Africa. The data collected in these surveys cover a broad range of indicators measuring the business environment in each country, such as access to finance, levels of corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and business performance. Users have the option to view the data as a “snapshot,” to browse topics and indicators per country, download country profiles, view a cross economy view of the data, and to conduct a custom query for downloading or viewing the indicators or the raw data itself. There is even a graphics tool for creating custom graphs for a country. Consider this site if you need to know the overall business environment and the status of private companies in a country covered in these surveys.
Worldwide Governance Indicators Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2014, for six dimensions of governance, including political stability and control of corruption.