Global/Comprehensive Country Risk
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The companies in this category are the largest country and political risk consultancies, with (relatively) large staffs covering the globe. They produce risk ratings and reports, usually for more than one topic -- political risk, economic risk, security risk, and so on. Most also do consulting or bespoke research projects.
Business Environment Risk Intelligence
BERI is a mysterious outfit claiming a global HQ in "Friday Harbor, State of Washington, U.S.A." The website is an amateur affair but BERI's country analysis services and ratings are remarkably well-defined (a rarity in this business). One provides risk...
Business Monitor International
Business Monitor International is know for its well-edited and well-written "Monitor" print publications (Latin America Monitor, Asia Monitor, etc.) which each month track the latest developments in emerging markets with analysis and commentary. Also for its weekly financial mini-magazine, which...
Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit has the greatest commercial acumen of any country analysis outfit on the planet, though that's a low bar in an industry awash in clueless academics and ex-government types. The EIU's product offerings are so complex you...
Global Insight
Global Insight, formerly DRI-WEFA, brings hard-core econometrics to bear on the fluffy field of political risk. GI's basic country analysis and ratings focus on economic issues like exchange rates, inflation, and growth, and seems aimed squarely at equity and bond...
International Country Risk Guide
International Country Risk Guide, ICRG, is a wholly-owned sub of Political Risk Services (see separate entry) but is run essentially independently. ICRG's risk ratings are famous, thanks to the Company's habit of selling them to academics. This resulted in the...
Political Risk Services
Political Risk Services is the long-running brainchild of two academics who devised a unique methodology for combining expert forecasts of highly uncertain phenomena. For unknown reasons, they then decided to apply this methodology to political risk, instead of something lucrative...
World Markets Research Center
Unlike its peers, World Markets Research Center was born in the internet age -- founded during the dot-com bubble. Every country risk company now puts its stuff online. But most are reluctant to alienate legacy print customers and hence the...
