Country Profiles
Web Resources - Risk
- Country Risk (A.M. Best)
- Country Risk and Economic Research from Coface, provider of trade credit insurance
- Country Risk Classification (OECD)
- Country Risk Maps
- Country Risks from Delcredere | Ducroire (formerly the Belgian Export Credit Agency)
- Country Reports from the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index
- Credit ratings: how Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country
- Global Risks (World Economic Forum)
- Global Sovereign Rating Trends (Standard & Poor's, registration required)
- Global Terrorism Index Report (Institute for Economics & Peace)
- Political Risk Map from Maplecroft and Marsh (PDF)
- Sovereign Ratings History (Fitch ratings of country debt; XLS file)
- World Investment and Political Risk (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank)
And here are presentation slides (in a ZIPped file) from a course on Country Risk Assessment conducted by Dr. Michel Henry Bouchet of the Skema Business School in France.
Web Resources - Corruption
These resources are based on Transparency International data.
Web Resources - General
General information on countries of the world are also available from other governments and intergovernmental sources, as well as from multinational firms offering business services:
Foreign Governments
- Country Info from the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
- Research Your Market from the New Zealand Government
- Export Markets - Countries with profiles of more than 90 nations, for Australian exporters
- Exporting Country Guides from the British Government
- Market Information from the Danish Government, for selected countries ("Marked") and industry sectors ("Sektor") - free registration required
International and Intergovernmental Organizations
- Countries and Economies (World Bank)
- Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations for a business environment summary (World Bank)
- Enterprise Surveys: Country Reports for an investment climate snapshot (World Bank)
- Financial Access Survey (International Monetary Fund)
- Global Gender Gap Report (World Economic Forum)
- Global Peace Index (Institute for Economics and Peace)
- Investment Climate Assessments (World Bank)
- Labour Force Surveys (International Labour Organization)
- The Little Data Book on External Debt 2012 (World Bank)
- The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2014 (World Bank)
- The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2014 (World Bank)
- The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015 (World Bank)
- The Little Green Data Book 2015 (World Bank)
- World Happiness Report (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network)
- World Tariff Profiles (World Trade Organization)
Commercial Firms
- Country Brand Index (FutureBrand; registration required)
- Country Economic Reports & GDP Data (Global Finance)
- Country Summaries with information about work authorization guidelines, from Fragomen Worldwide
- Doing Business In ... and Tax Guides from PKF International
- Doing Business In ... guides for about 40 countries, from the accounting firm of HLB International
- Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index from A.T. Kearney
- Grant Thornton's Global Dynamism Index
- Global Food Security Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit
- Global Services Location Index from A.T. Kearney
- Guides to Doing Business from member law firms of Lex Mundi
- Inclusive Internet Index from EIU.com
- Incorporation Comparison Chart for companies in several countries, from Trident Trust
- List of Countries by Corporate Tax Rate from Trading Economics which provides much country-level data
- KPMG's Taxation of International Executives covers taxation and immigration issues for dozens of countries
- Tax Guides and Highlights from Deloitte
- Transforming World Atlas from Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Worldwide Tax Summaries from PWC
Other Sources
- CountryEconomy.com
- Deloitte International Tax Source jurisdictions
- Doing Business Law Library (World Bank)
- Environmental Performance Index (Yale University and Columbia University)
- Global Information Technology Report (World Economic Forum)
- Information Technology Landscape in Nations Around the World (American University - now a little dated)
- Legatum Prosperity Index (Legatum Institute)
