Library Guides: Political Risk Analysis: Web Sites

General Web Sites

BBC News Country Profiles
Corruption Perceptions Index
From Transparency International
Foreign Policy Failed States
Fragile and Conflict Affected States
Produced by Fund for Peace. Read about their methodology under Frequently Asked Questions. Formerly known as the Failed States Index.
Freedom House
An independent watchdog organization that focuses on threats to democracy.
Global Human Development Indicators
From the United Nations Development Programme.
Global Peace Index
From the Institute for Economics & Peace.
Index of Economic Freedom
The Heritage Foundation.
International Economic Trends
From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. A quarterly publication of charts and tables of data from the G-7 countries, selected emerging markets, and the euro area, including output, inflation, labor markets, interest rates, government budgets, trade, and more.
KOF Globalisation Index
Using the KOF Globalisation Index one can create custom queries and generate maps and graphs.
U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets (U.S. State Dept.)
Formerly known as Background Notes and Country Fact Sheets, the current version is now called U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.
U.S. State Dept. - International Travel Information and Alerts
World Development Indicators
From the World Bank.
Worldwide Governance Indicators
From the World Bank.

Using a guide to top-level domains (TLDs), one can search Google for risk information on foreign Web sites and those of international organizations.

Here are some search examples using Google:

site:eg risk - finds documents hosted on Egyptian Web sites

site:gov.eg risk - finds documents hosted on Egyptian government Web sites

site:gob.mx risk - finds documents on Mexican government Web sites

site:undp.org risk - finds documents on United Nations Development Programme sites

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