Country-risk

This is a book written by a highly experienced international marketer who truly understands the characteristic of the newly independent states of the Soviet Union and other developing Eastern European countries. It clearly instructs readers how to how to build sucessful sales networks and create lasting local business relationships. Our consulting staff refers to this book often when putting together marketing programs for clients who want to penetrate BEM's as quickly and profitably as possible. John R. Jagoe, Director, Export Institute.

As the Director of Training Development for an American based international company, I found this book to be extremely informative, very practical, as well as an interesting read. An unusal combination to find in business books. Miller obviously knows his subject and is able to convey his valuable information in a very readable manner.

A reader from Mozambique. AIDS and MEN: Taking risk or Taking responsibility?

This book touches on a sensitive issue. Although the argument of men driving the HIV epidemic is not new, it has not been realised by many sectors of society. Firstly, the book points out the role of men in the spread of HIV. Men are labelled as key actors in the dynamic transmission of the disease. Men have greater opportunity of sexual contact, drug and alcohol use and take advantage over women by determining when a condom will be used. This behaviour of men subjects women to greater risk of acquiring HIV. Secondly and closely related to the former, is that HIV/AIDS in women is not merely a biological fact of contracting a disease. Rather, HIV/AIDS in women is, in the majority of cases, a result of the disadvantage they have in comparison with men. Women are dominated by men. The condition of dependency, taboos, lack of opportunity, ignorance, religion and others, make women unable to protect themselves to avoid the disease. HIV/AIDS in women is as result of women abuse and violence, mostly in developing countries. Thirdly, the social approach which is presented as one of the most likely to overcome the epidemic, is at the same time, recognised as the hardest to achieve. The social approach addresses the issue of "changing societal norms which means to recognise the context of men's life, taking into account their fears and desires and encouraging responsibility, communication with partners and respect for others and oneself". As a physician and public health worker, but mostly as a man, we must recognise that if we(men) are taking risks, we have to change our behaviour by taking responsibility. In this context the book has achieved its proposal.

Finally, a book about Political Risk Insurance that presents the basics in a well-written and easily digestible text. Wagner provides an insider's view of PRI and lets the reader know how the underwriters underwrite the insurance. I think the potential applications for information presented in this book are far reaching. I intend to use the information to help grow my business and protect myself against those unforeseen risks that every international business faces.

Political risk insurance is essential for a company with assets at risk overseas. This book is a quick but essential read for these company managers.

This is a wonderful book written on a difficult subject. The author is clearly in favour of an objective quantitative tool that can be used for assessing the risk for any country.

The technique advocated by Clark and Marois is based on a real option pricing model borrowing quantitative well-known techniques from the derivatives field. Their approach is shown in the book to be superior to other methods used in the real world by some respectable institutions and you are left wondering why not everybody is applying the new approach revealed in this book.

The book is far superior and more advanced than other more known titles in the field and it can be used by practitioners in the banks and financial institutions dealing with political risk and country rating, governmental specialists interested in identifying more rigorous tools for evaluating the national position vis-a-vis the rest of the world and by postgraduate and MBA students that can learn how to apply the real option technique and develop it further.

In conclusion it is a unique book in this area and I strongly recommended to those interested in risk management.

I read with great interest; a very concise summary, most recommendable overview of historical development and scope of EU industrial safety control measures.

It is about time someone published a truely accessable and affordable risk manual and country guide. I have been involved in risk analysis for many years, this book will give you instant answers instead of fumbling through reams of data from the EIU. A must have for all Treasury, Finance and Sales Departments conserning themselves in international business.

This book is a continuation of volume 1 - being that it is purely focused on financial markets and financial products. I was looking for a book on managing risk surrounding the development of new products (i.e. goods) and services for the market place. These issues are VERY different than those surrounding financial products in a nearly efficient market. I'll keep the book for the excellent content, but beware - it's probably not what you might expect!

The chapters on Interest Rate Option Models (Riccardo Rebonato) and Calculating Risk Capital (Thomas Wilson) are great critical surveys on their respective topic

Having re-read this book for the second time,I have to confess that I still have severe doubts about the validity of the underlying assessments. The fundamental problem of the book is its pre-occuptation with the anglo-saxon shorttermist mentality which leads to ultimately misleading conclusions regarding monetary policy. Ultimately a firm orientation of monetary policy towards the medium-term objective of price stability - in the context of an 'ordnungspolitische' well-based broader economic and social framework - it the best guarantor of the financial and economic stability which is essential to reap the full fruits of economic progress. The experience of Germany over the last 30 years - which, in contrast to the poor record of the anglo-saxon economies, is characterised by a solid track record of price stability combined with the absence of notable financial fragility - is powerful evidence of the enduring truth of this proposition. While this view may not be en vogue with many financial commentators - especially those in the anglo-saxon presse - I am convinced that this will change radically in the near future, as events unfold in the US and reveal the inherent weakness of monetary policies orientated to cyclical fine-tuning and the support of stock marktes.

This book - authored by E.P. Davis the foremost expert in the study of financial crises - provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of financial fragility together with a review of a detailed review of a number of case studies. These range from the Herstatt crisis of the 1970s to the housing booms/busts in the UK and Scandanavia in the 1980s/1990s. It is essential reading for all economists seeking to understand the underlying factors at work in generating financial fragility. It should be required reading for those responsible for the supervision of financial institutions.

This is simply a disorganized summation of business and political news stories in Vietnam. I tried to use this book in writing a thesis about recent political and economic reforms in Vietnam, but, because it lacks organization and analysis, found it useless.