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Political Risk Services (PRS) publishes 100 Country Reports that monitor the risks to international business over the next five years, using the tried and true Coplin-O’Leary methodology.

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Iran

Clerics Tighten Control
Almost completely obscured amid a worrisome bout of saber-rattling over Iran’s nuclear ambitions early in the year was the fact that Iran held parliamentary elections in early March. To be sure, the result was all but preordained, given the clerical establishment’s ability to disqualify candidates who might pose a challenge to its power. But the vote was not insignificant, as it represented the last chance for allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to retain a bulwark of parliamentary support for the embattled executive in his power struggle with Iran’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the event, the president’s faction was routed, as Khamenei’s supporters won about 75% of the seats in the 290-member Majlis. The result effectively reduces Ahmadinejad to figurehead status, and there is speculation that Khamenei More...

International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) monitors 140 developed, emerging & frontier markets, rating a range of risks to international businesses & financial institutions with its unique methodology.

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Myanmar

Opposition By-Election Sweep
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party (NLD) won a sweeping victory in historic by-elections on April 1, taking 43 of 45 seats. The party’s only loss was by a narrow margin in the eastern Shan State where the ethnic-based Shan Nationalities Democratic Party enjoys widespread support. The ruling military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) suffered a crushing defeat taking only one seat – in a constituency in which the NLD candidate was disqualified prior to the vote. The NLD’s sweeping victory represents a cap to some of the most significant political developments to occur in Myanmar in some 20 years. The vote – held to fill 45 parliamentary seats left open by lawmakers assuming positions with the government that took office in March 2011 – followed a year of liberalization and reforms at a pace More…