BISNIS
Bulletin, November 2001
Control Risks Group
LLC (www.crg.com) specializes in international
business and risk consultancy, offering political and security analysis, crisis
management and response, information security and investigations, and more.
Global Risk
Assessment, Inc. (www.grai.com) offers research and
consulting in international business environment assessment; country,
investment, and trade risk analysis; and political assessment and management.
Kroll
(www.krollworldwide.com) provides assistance to clients in assessing risks
related to a wide range of current and potential difficulties in various
countries.
Merchant International
Group specializes in identifying, quantifying, and
managing the risks associated with investments in over 80 countries.
(www.merchantinternational.com)
The Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency (www.miga.org), a member of the World
Bank Group, promotes foreign direct investment into emerging economies by
offering political risk insurance (guarantees) to investors and lenders, and by
helping developing countries attract and retain private investment.
Standard and Poor’s
(www.standardpoor.com) rates 14 post-Communist countries and explores several
key issues including assessing credit risk, major credit challenges, and credit
worthiness trends.
This
list is not comprehensive, nor does it represent an endorsement by the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
This report is provided courtesy of the Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS)