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African sovereign debtors aren’t over the hump yet

African sovereign debtors aren’t over the hump yet

African sovereign bonds have been rallying this year. But traditional credit metrics show very high vulnerability to debt distress. Our own…
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Moritz Kraemer
Managing Divergent Ratings: Changes to our ratings following the IMF Spring Meetings

Managing Divergent Ratings: Changes to our ratings following the IMF Spring Meetings

Unlike the established agencies, we at CountryRisk.io base our sovereign risk scores exclusively on quantitative analysis with no analyst…
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Moritz Kraemer
Integrating natural capital into economic reporting — Creating a more holistic GDP metric

Integrating natural capital into economic reporting — Creating a more holistic GDP metric

Gross Domestic Product has for decades served as the preeminent system of measurement for a country’s economic activity after the System…
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Bernhard Obenhuber
Sovereign rating review: first quarter 2021

Sovereign rating review: first quarter 2021

Summary
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Moritz Kraemer
Taking the pulse: sovereign ratings during the pandemic

Taking the pulse: sovereign ratings during the pandemic

A little more than a year ago, on January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a “Public Health Emergency of…
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Moritz Kraemer
Building back better: Linking sovereign bond payments to sustainability targets

Building back better: Linking sovereign bond payments to sustainability targets

Countries should not just label bonds as sustainable; they should actively tie coupon payments to sustainability targets, such as achieving
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Bernhard Obenhuber
How do you predict a sovereign default?

How do you predict a sovereign default?

Spectacular busts in Argentina and Greece notwithstanding, sovereign defaults to commercial creditors have been relatively infrequent of…
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Moritz Kraemer
Looking ahead to 2021 at CountryRisk.io

Looking ahead to 2021 at CountryRisk.io

Happy New Year! I’m sure most of the CountryRisk.io community will join me in wishing ‘good riddance’ to 2020, dominated as it was by the…
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Jenny Asuncion
ESG risk — in the eye of the beholder

ESG risk — in the eye of the beholder

The explosion of interest in sustainable investment has led to an explosion in the supply of ESG corporate data. The niche providers that…
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Bernhard Obenhuber
Digging into deforestation

Digging into deforestation

The latest data on deforestation in the Amazon makes for sobering reading. Preliminary figures from Brazil’s space agency, Inpe, show that…
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Bernhard Obenhuber
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