10.7910/DVN/4YHTPUInternational Country Risk Guide (ICRG) ResearchersHarvard Dataverse2014Social Sciencespolitical riskCountry riskPolitical stability -- EvaluationInvestments, Foreign -- EvaluationJennie MurackJennieMurackPRS GroupPRS Group201420142013-05-132022-05-27Risk ratings; aggregate socio-economic indicators12134474547238963246387211851322118416072829627622564608254924824883234560011212811878425702433689625600389160327682283111116711203111831110711121111081117111143application/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-exceltext/plain; charset=US-ASCIIapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/pdfapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/vnd.ms-excelapplication/mswordapplication/pdfapplication/mswordapplication/pdftext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-valuestext/tab-separated-values9.0<p>Main data files comprise 22 variables in three subcategories of risk (political, financial, and economic) for 146 countries for 1984-2021. Data are annual averages of the components of the ICRG Risk Ratings (Tables 3B, 4B, and 5B) published in the International Country Risk Guide. Indices include: political: government stability, socioeconomic conditions, investment profile, internal conflict, external conflict, corruption, military in politics, religion in politics, law and order, ethnic tensions, democratic accountability, and bureaucratic quality; financial: foreign debt, exchange rate stability, debt service, current account, international liquidity; and economic: inflation, GDP per head, GDP growth, budget balance, current account as % of GDP. </p> <p> Table 2B provides annual averages of the composite risk rating.</p> <p> Table 3Ba provides historical political risk subcomponents on a monthly basis from May 2001-February 2022. </p> <p>Also includes the IRIS-3 dataset by Steve Knack and Philip Keefer, which covers the period of 1982-1997 and computed scores for six additional political risk variables: corruption in government, rule of law, bureaucratic quality, ethnic tensions, repudiation of contracts by government, and risk of expropriation.</p> <p>Additional data files provide country risk ratings and databanks (economic and social indicators) for new emerging markets for 2000-2009.</p><p><b>MIT affiliates should access this dataset by logging into Dataverse and selecting Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</b></p> <p><b>This dataset is only for use by MIT students, staff, and faculty. It will not be shared with anyone outside MIT.</b></p>Before uploading to the repository, files that were in a proprietary format were additionally converted to a more open format.