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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…
Moritz Kraemer
Jun 8, 2021
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…
Moritz Kraemer
May 20, 2021
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…
Bernhard Obenhuber
Apr 13, 2021
Sovereign rating review: first quarter 2021
Sovereign rating review: first quarter 2021
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Moritz Kraemer
Apr 12, 2021
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…
Moritz Kraemer
Mar 16, 2021
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
Bernhard Obenhuber
Mar 2, 2021
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…
Moritz Kraemer
Feb 9, 2021
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…
Jenny Asuncion
Jan 14, 2021
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…
Bernhard Obenhuber
Dec 23, 2020
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…
Bernhard Obenhuber
Dec 16, 2020
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