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13 Mar 2018
RiskMap 2018
Americas

From a distance, Latin America shows a tempting array of positive indicators. In most of the region’s economies, the painful slowdown triggered by the 2014 collapse in commodity prices has largely ended. Economic growth across the continent is expected to expand from ...

30 Jan 2018
RiskMap 2018
Global

Control Risks recorded 38,523 political violence and crime incidents worldwide in 2017. What were the key trends that you need to know about and how do our experts expect these to evolve in 2018?

08 Jan 2018
RiskMap 2018
Global

In our Top 5 Risks for 2018 video, Charles Hecker, Senior Partner at Control Risks discusses the key risks for the year ahead.

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Africa

The disparity between the advanced ages of many African leaders and the youthful populations over which they preside is remarkable: the average age of African heads of state is currently 65, about ten years older than the average age of current EU heads of state ...

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Americas

Think about the US as two countries: one is the global superpower, with its indispensable diplomacy, military deployments, cultural dominance, and dense trade and financial relations; the other is the local republic, mostly consumed by daily life, where jobs, health, family and heritage...

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Global

If you’re looking for good news about the global terrorist threat, this is it: the overall number of terrorist incidents worldwide, as well as the number of estimated casualties, declined in 2017 compared with 2016, according to Control Risks data. The essential drill down reveals the inevitable nuance.

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Africa

Chad was the last African country to qualify for debt relief under a programme called the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. At a stroke, more than USD 1bn was wiped off the country's balance sheet in 2015. Relief from crippling debt service payments has been credited with improving the economic outlook ...

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Global

Globalisation sought to constrain militant nationalism with shared prosperity. Trade and financial integration would make major conflict unthinkably costly. Growth would supplant military spending as a barometer of national strength. Universal access to information would help to liberate societies ...

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Asia Pacific

The poisonous rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in recent times, but so too has North Korea’s nuclear research, development and testing programme. This crisis has seen cyclical swings of varying severity for the past 20 years, but now, this much has changed...

18 Dec 2017
RiskMap 2018
Global

2018 looks set to deliver the highest economic growth in ten years, a sign that the global financial crisis might finally be behind us. This is of course good news for international business. But the surge in business confidence is tempered by a sense that despite bullish economic data ...

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Latin America: promise from afar

Political violence and crime rise across the world in 2017

Top 5 Risks for 2018

Africa: the next generation

The flag and the republic

Terrorism and new ideologies

At debt's door

The global powder keg

North Korea: the limits of escalation

Optimism and turbulence in 2018