Thu Jul 9, 2009 15:40 GMT |
With public unrest and ethnic tensions rising, we look at the role the economy has played in fostering political risk around the world, from China’s Xinjiang province to Central America on the eve of a military coup in Honduras. BMI’s Europe, Asia and Latin America analysts all agree, political risk will remain a force to… [Read more]
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Tags: CEE, Central America, ethnic tensions, EU, Honduras, Political Risk, public unrest, recession, unemployment, Xinjiang
Posted in: Asia, China, Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Latin America, Podcast, Political Risk
Tue Feb 3, 2009 18:31 GMT |
I am becoming increasingly concerned about the rising threat of strikes and demonstrations in Emerging Europe. Business Monitor International (BMI) has long raised a number of structural problems in the region – endemic corruption, nepotism and flawed election procedures. However, with unemployment set to rise, the erosion of real wealth and governments’ perceived mismanagement of… [Read more]
Tags: Baltic States, Bulgaria, demonstrations, Emerging Europe, Georgia, protests, public unrest, recession, Romania, Russia
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Political Risk