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EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts

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Subject Coverage Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Report Options
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Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort Rates


File Description [top]

EIU: Country Risk And Forecasts contains the full text of the EIU's premium Country Risk Service and Country Forecasts. The Country Risk Service provides insightful analysis of the short- and medium-term economic creditworthiness of over 90 countries. Country Forecasts gives a medium-term outlook into economic, political and business trends in 58 countries. Risk assessments and forecasts are updated quarterly for each market.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 628

to find GDP, interest rates, risk ratings, and other key economic factors for a country or region; to find reports on a country's economic or political outlook.

USE SF=TABLE

to see records with data in tabular format.

     SELECT SF=TABLE AND CN=WORLD

EXPAND MT=

to see a title list of all reports.

USE REPORT TITLES

to gather together all the records of an individual report.

     SELECT CN=TURKEY AND PY=1996
     REPORT S1/TITLES


Subject Coverage [top]

EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts provides all the information you need to assess the current and future opportunities and risks of operating in overseas markets.

Each country risk report includes:

  • Analysis of local financial markets
  • Credit risk ratings reflecting trade, policy and political threats
  • Economic growth and financial indicators
  • International financial flows
  • Pointers for lenders and investors
  • Two-year projection of external finances

Each country forecast report provides outlooks for the following:

  • Environmental issues
  • Exchange controls
  • External debt
  • Foreign investment
  • Foreign trade and payments
  • GDP growth and its components
  • Industrial policy
  • Infrastructure
  • Interest and exchange rates
  • Political scene
  • Tax regimes
  • Ten-year growth picture
  • Wage and price inflation


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: January 1989 to the present
File Size: 706,431 records as of July 2008
Update Frequency: Weekly


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Reports


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available (REDIST only)
  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available
  • REPORT/TITLES Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
BUSECON Business Economics
COUNTRIE Country Report
EIU Economist Intelligence Unit Files
GOVT Government
JAPANNEW Japanese Business News
MULTIIND General Industry Information


Contact [top]

EIU: Country Risk and Forecast is provided by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

The Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Building
111 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-2211

Telephone: 212-554-0600
Fax: 212-586-1181


Terms and Conditions [top]

While every effort is made to assure accuracy and reliability of the material contained herein, the Economist Intelligence Unit cannot be held responsible for damages of any kind in connection with the use of this product.


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 628:EIU: Country Risk and Forecasts 
    (c) 2006 Economist Intelligence Unit. All rts. reserv. 
     
    0000010205 
  /TI  Outlook for 2006-07: Domestic politics 
     
  /MT,MT=  Main Report Title: Country Risk Service India February 2006 Updater 
  CN=  COUNTRY: INDIA 
  JN=,PD=,PY=  JOURNAL:  Country Risk Service India   - February 8, 2006 
    WORD COUNT: 614 
     
  /LP,/TX  Although it faces a number of threats and appears to be increasingly 
    accident-prone, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, led by the 
    Indian National Congress, is likely to remain in power in 2006-07. Tensions 
    between Congress, its coalition allies and the mainly communist Left Front 
    parties that support the coalition will make for a volatile political 
    environment. The survival of the coalition cannot therefore be taken for 
    granted. Coalition member parties lost power in the states of Jharkhand and 
    Bihar in 2005, and the Congress-led coalition in the state of Karnataka 
    collapsed in late January 2006. There have also been a number of corruption 
    scandals involving Congress, including the Iraqi oil-for-food fraud, which 
    resulted in the resignation of the foreign minister, Natwar Singh, in 
    November 2005, and a new twist in the 1986 Bofors arms deal, which 
    contributed to the fall in 1989 of the Congress prime minister, Rajiv 
    Ghandi. However, support for Congress is holding up well in nationwide 
    opinion polls, helped by the buoyancy of the economy and the weakness of 
    the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The 
    untarnished reputation of the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has helped 
    him to brush off calls for his resignation, and he faces no immediate 
    threat to his power. 
     
  /TX  But Mr Singh cannot afford to rest on his laurels. His first cabinet 
    reshuffle, on January 29th this year, saw the removal of the high-profile 
    and independent-minded petroleum minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, and ten new 
    appointments to less important ministries. Significantly, Mr Singh's 
    decisions to retain the external affairs portfolio and to replace Mr Aiyar 
    with a Congress veteran, Murli Deora, suggests that the prime minister and 
    the powerful Congress party president, Sonia Ghandi, want to exert a firm 
    grip over foreign and energy policy. These are two areas that will be 
    crucial to India's closer relationship with the US over the next few 
    months, and especially when the US president, George W Bush, visits India 
    in March. Mr Singh could announce another reshuffle, probably involving the 
    external affairs portfolio, shortly after Mr Bush's visit. 
     
    Congress's minority position in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of 
    parliament) and its continuing reliance on regional parties, as well as the 
    Left Front, for support remain a problem. It cannot be assumed that either 
    group of parties will be willing to compromise over key issues 
    indefinitely. In addition, instability and surprise results in state-level 
    politics could unsettle the fragile UPA coalition. The state assembly 
    elections in West Bengal and Kerala in mid-2006 will strain already tense 
    relations between Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or 
    CPI (M), the largest Left Front party, on whose support the UPA relies to 
    control parliament. The CPI (M)'s conditional support for the government 
    goes some way towards bearing out the view of the BJP that dislike of the 
    main opposition party is the only cohesive force operating in the current 
    government. 
     
    Since it fell from power, the BJP has been plagued by internal dissent and 
    in-fighting. However, it has recently been galvanised by a state assembly 
    victory in Bihar, as well as by internal elections that produced a new 
    party president, Rajnath Singh, the former chief minister of India's most 
    populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, there is a strong 
    anti-incumbency factor in Indian politics (whereby voters become 
    disillusioned with the party in power). It is therefore possible that the 
    BJP's fortunes could turn around at short notice, just as Congress's did at 
    the last general election in May 2004 (although it won only eight more 
    seats than the BJP). 
             (c) 2006 Economist Intelligence Unit 
     
   

SAMPLE REPORT TITLES 

     
    ?s cn=peru and forecast?/mt and py=1997 
                1265  CN=PERU 
               47027  FORECAST?/MT 
               22917  PY=1997 
          S1     138  CN=PERU AND FORECAST?/MT AND PY=1997 
    ?report s1/titles 
                  DIALOG(R) ONLINE TABLE OF CONTENTS 
                        LIST OF REPORT TITLES 
     
    ITEM NUMBER, MAIN TITLE 
    ------------------------------------------------------ 
    1   Peru-Country Forecasts 971110 
        F628: Ctry Risk & Forecasts 
        November  1997/15 records 
     
    2   Peru-Country Forecasts 970801 
        F628: Ctry Risk & Forecasts 
        August    1997/58 records 
     
    3   Peru-Country Forecasts 970509 
        F628: Ctry Risk & Forecasts 
        May       1997/15 records 
     
    4   Peru-Country Forecasts 970228 
        F628: Ctry Risk & Forecasts 
        February  1997/50 records 
     
    Enter one item number, P for next page, or EXIT to leave TITLES: 
    ?exit 
    Leaving Report/TITLES... 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
FIELD NAME
INDEXING
SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S POLITICS
/CN CN Country Name1 Word S INDIA/CN
/LP LP Lead Paragraph Word S POLITICAL(W)ENVIRONMENT/LP
/MT MT Main Title1 Word S COUNTRY RISK?/MT
/TI TI Headline/Section Title Word S DOMESTIC(W)POLITICS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S CONGRESS(W)PARTY/TX

1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
FIELD NAME
INDEXING
SELECT EXAMPLES
None AZ DIALOG Accession Number
CN= CN Country Name1 Phrase S CN=INDIA
DT= DT Document Type2 Phrase S DT=REPORT
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=COUNTRY RISK SERVICE?
LA= LA Language2 Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
MT= MT Main Title1 Phrase S MT=COUNTRY RISK SERVICE INDIA?
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=20060208
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=2006
RT= RT Record Type2 Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
SF= SF Special Feature Phrase S SF=TABLE
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

2 Present beginning in 2006.


LIMIT [top]

Sets and terms may be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CN, /CO, /LP, /TI, /TX (e.g., S S5/CO), as well as by the following features:
SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/ENG English-Language Records S S3/ENG
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/2005:2006


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AN, CN, JN, MT, PD, PY, TI SORT SORT S5/ALL/PY,D


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK JN S3


REPORT TITLES [top]

All records comprising a report can be grouped together with the REPORT TITLES command. REPORT S2/TITLES


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S3/CN,TX/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
DIALOGWEB
FORMAT
RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record Except Text
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation, Country Name, and Word Count
4 -- Bibilographic Citation and Text
5 -- Full Record Except Text (includes Lead Paragraph)
6 Short Title, Country Name, and Word Count
7 Long Bibilographic Citation and Text
8 -- Title, Country Name, Company Name(s) and Word Count
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 2000016/5
DISPLAY 1500015/TI,CN
PRINT 1000200/5


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