Political Risk, Economic Risk and Financial Risk

Table 4: Specific factors included in country ratings

		Index Provider (See Endnotes)
Index Subcomponents		BoA	BERI	CRIS	EIU	EUROMY	INSTINV	MOODY	PRSICRG	PRSCOPL	S&P
Political and Policy			Qual		Qual	Qual	Qual	Qual	Qual		Quant/Qual
Financial		Quant				Quant	Qual	Quant	Quant/Qual	Quant/Qual
Economic		Quant	Quant		Quant	Quant	Qual	Quant/Qual	Quant/Qual		Quant
Operations			Quant/Qual
Remittances and Repatriation of Capital			Quant/Qual
Security				Qual
Lending & Trade					Quant/Qual
Export										Quant/Qual
Direct Investment										Quant/Qual
Index Type		Ordinal	Scalar	Ordinal	Scalar	Scalar	Scalar	Ordinal	Scalar	Scalar	Ordinal
Data Sources
Expert Panel			X							X
Survey						X	X
Staff Analysis				X	X			X	X		X
Published Data		X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X

Last Updated: May 30, 1996

Analyst/Contact: Campbell R. Harvey