The world of country and political risk assessment has changed significantly over the last decade, with a plethora of views and approaches that can often obfuscate clear and balanced investment analyses. Since its beginning in the early 1980s as International Reports, a widely respected weekly newsletter on international finance and economics, the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) has provided hedge funds, risk managers, and traders with data and insights vital to their exposures and longer-term positions in developed and emerging markets.

Each Issue of ICRG Includes:• Country analyses focusing on key events affecting

political, financial and economic risk, and 27 statistical tables on GDP growth, inflation, the current account, external debt, liquidity, and exchange rate stability.

• Country risk assessments that account for the occurrence of Type-2 errors by posing alternative risk scores over one- and five-year time horizons.

• Overviews of political and country risk trends affecting each of the regions covered (Asia, Africa, Americas, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe), and commentary on the changes to the country ratings for the month.

• Global Maps of Political Risk giving a visual of key risks, by region and by country.

ICRG Risk Data Series:• Dates to the early 1980s, and incorporates over 40 risk

metrics affecting political, financial, and economic risk for 140 countries, which is compiled into a composite risk score and overall country rating.

• Has been back-tested by academics and IMF researchers, and found to have correlations with future equity returns globally, sovereign spreads, bank lending volume, and IMF program implementation, among other items.*

• Has been used to determine the effectiveness of capital controls in a range of emerging markets, explain manufacturing productivity trends in Asia, and illuminate the effect of financial-sector reform on bank performance in selected Middle Eastern and North African countries.*

About the Editor:Christopher McKee, PhD, is a former faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and has worked in the country risk and financing field in the private and government sectors for almost two decades. Christopher is the author of a range of publications dealing with issues affecting international business and risk, has lived and worked in a number of emerging market regions, including Latin America, South East Asia and North Africa, and has been interviewed or quoted by such publications as LatinFinance, Institutional Investor,Euromoney, Reuters, CIO, and has appeared on CNBC.

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