Country Risk Advisory Group (CRAG)
Background:
It is often said that the less developed a country is the more politics matters. In no other part of the world is this truer than in Africa, where the transition of one country’s leadership to the next, a simple and inconsequential activity in most developed countries, can have profound effects on the stability of markets, terrifying even the most hardened foreign investors.
In most African countries, power is highly centralized at the federal level. As such, most of the political, social, economic, and security risk fault lines that threaten a client’s investment in a country occur at the federal level, especially in the continent’s many fragile and highly underdeveloped nations, where the state is often the sole policy actor.
About the Country Risk Advisory Group
B&M’s Country Risk Advisory Group (CRAG) provides timely strategic analysis of country-level political, economic, social and security developments, and forecasts the impact of these developments on a client’s investment, operation and business development objectives in any African country.
The Applications for Business and Investment
CRAG helps clients incorporate political risk management into their plans for business and investment in specific African countries, especially at the point of entry and expansion.
B&M’s flexible research model and unique AfriRisk Index©, the first comparative country risk index modeled to distinctively monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, can be adapted to track categories of risks prevalent in any African country pertinent to a client’s business plans, including the risk of expropriations, corruption and electoral violence.
CRAG advises NGOs, non-profits, foreign aid donors, multilateral organizations and foreign governments (municipal, provincial and national), and helps them (and other clients) assess and manage the political risks of engaging institutions at the country level, including the governments of all 53 African countries.
For more information, please contact B&M’s Country Risk Advisory Group (CRAG) directly at crag@bmconsultancy.net
Country Risk Advisory Group Analysts
In addition to being experts on general African politics, history, and business, CRAG analysts are particularly familiar with political risk stress points unique to African countries, possessing the requisite multinational language skills.
They monitor all developments affecting a client’s target African country, including those occurring within and outside it.
Lastly, CRAG is supported by field research analysts and on-the-ground monitors based in several African countries, strategically positioned to help our clients navigate and manage the real-world day-to-day political, security and social risks of doing business on the ground in the target country.
CRAG analysts double as members of B&M’s various other advisory groups and country clusters, which focus their research at the municipal, provincial, sub-regional, continental, and industry level to provide clients with insightful comparative analysis across multiple regions and sectors.
Coverage Area:
B&M’s Country Risk Advisory Group (CRAG) has the capacity to cover any African country of interest to our clients.
Common Research Topics:
Assessing the threat of expropriations by a country’s government.
Measuring the likelihood of a coup and the potential for subsequent political instability.
The impact of volatility in the regulatory environment on political instability.
For more information, please contact B&M’s Country Risk Advisory Group (CRAG) directly at crag@bmconsultancy.net |
