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Maplecroft Launches Political Risk Quarterly Outlook

22/07/2010

A new product assessing key political risks for business will provide critical insights quarterly into legal, regulatory and governance risks, business and macroeconomic risks, and political violence in countries worldwide.

Maplecroft's new product, Political Risk Quarterly Outlook, offers up-to-date, one-page country risk scorecards for organisations with operations, supply chains and investments in environments with high levels of inherent political risk. It provides qualitative analysis of significant recent events for each of the three core risk areas and includes country scores and trends across eleven risk areas.

Sample scorecard (available on free trial) (PDF 179.2 KB)

Risk areas

Governance risks

• Regime stability
• Rule of law
• Democratic governance

Political violence risk

• Conflict and political violence
• Terrorism risk
• Extrajudicial and unlawful killings
• Kidnappings

Business and macroeconomic risk

• Regulatory Framework
• Business environment
• Macroeconomic environment
• Business integrity and corruption

Each risk area is rated as low, medium, high or extreme risk. A quarterly trend of increasing, stable or decreasing risk is assigned to each risk area and is accompanied by a qualitative assessment of risk.

The scorecards can be supplemented with maps dependent upon client requirements.

Political Risk Quarterly Outlook provides a valuable supplement to Maplecroft's annual Political Risk Atlas and in-depth reports. Subscribers will benefit from regular situation updates that provide a snapshot of political risk exposures within a country throughout the year.

For more information and pricing details of Political Risk Quarterly Outlook contact info@maplecroft.com