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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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Featured Country Report:

Ireland

No Relief from Austerity
The combination of external financial support and deficit-reducing austerity measures that was supposed to be a formula for economic recovery in Ireland has failed to deliver as promised, and weak domestic growth and a looming recession across the euro zone threaten to reverse the progress made on fiscal consolidation. But with the primary balance firmly in the red, the Fine Gael-Labour government will have little choice but to subject the Irish citizenry to a fourth consecutive year of austerity in 2012. Tax increases and spending cuts totaling nearly $4.9 billion are in store next year. No changes are planned to income tax rates, and the corporate tax will be held at 12.5%, but the VAT will rise by two percentage points and the rates for the capital acquisitions tax, the capital gains tax, and the tax on interest earned from 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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Rating countries since 1980
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Featured Country Analysis:

Turkey

Political Gambles
It appears that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in a gambling mood of late, exemplified by two recent developments—the conclusion of major gas pipeline deals with both Azerbaijan and Russia, and the arrest of retired Gen. Ilker Basbug, a former chief of general staff of the army, on charges of plotting to overthrow the government—that have potentially significant implications for Turkey’s regional standing and the outlook for domestic stability, respectively. It remains to be seen whether these are the actions of a skilled and clever leader who has grown increasingly confident with the exercise of political power, or examples of dangerous overreach. But there are clear risks in both cases, and with economic growth set to slow markedly especially given the poor near-term outlook for the Turkish economy. The pipeline deals were the More…