Sovereign Risk Service

Sovereign Risk Service uses our proprietary, transparent analytical model for assessing creditworthiness and financial stability across 204 countries. Our analysts derive a sovereign risk rating for each country based on its key liquidity and debt ratios, economic and political situation, and attitude toward foreign creditors. These latter factors are of particular relevance in the weaker and less stable emerging-market economies of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Subscribers receive a "Sovereign Risk League Table" comparing our rating to that of the three major credit rating agencies, the four of which we average into short- and medium-term "consensus ratings." IHS Global Insight Sovereign Risk Service is integral to our Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast Service and is delivered through our client-access website, MyInsight.

Subscribers to this service receive:

• Debt statistics and financial ratios 
• Sovereign risk table 
• Sovereign risk report 
• Sovereign risk ratings 
• Comparative ratings presentations

Benefits:

The Sovereign Risk Service enables you to:

• Monitor and understand each country's sovereign health—indebtedness, creditworthiness—and pinpoint potential issues that might undermine a country's ability to honor payment obligations 
• Provide a unbiased reference point to traditional ratings agencies 
• Assess growth and development potential for individual economies and regional markets based on the health of the financial sector 
• Decide whether to extend loans to foreign governments or foreign private firms

Debt Statistics & Financial Ratios
Detailed country balance sheet and debt-related statistics, including key external liquidity and solvency ratios starting from 1999 to the present, with a four-year forecast

Sovereign Risk Table
Detailed quantitative assessment of each country's financial, economic, and political attributes related to its ability and willingness to honor financial obligations

Sovereign Risk Report
Analysis and commentary of each country's risk attributes, including their contribution to a country's overall risk rating

Sovereign Risk Ratings
A short- and medium-term risk rating for each country, derived from an average of IHS Global Insight's sovereign risk rating and those of the three major credit rating agencies

Comparative Ratings Presentations
Sovereign risk league table comparing IHS Global Insight's sovereign risk rating with those of the three major credit rating agencies, culminating in a "consensus rating" for the short- and medium-term horizons

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