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These Are The Countries That Have Destabilized The Most Over The Past 3 Months -- Jeremy Bender, Business Insider
Leading global risk analytics firm Maplecroft has released its latest quarterly Civil Unrest Index. The index tracked changes in social or political unrest that could disrupt business operations across 197 countries.
Maplecroft found that globally, civil unrest has risen in 20% of countries worldwide from the third to fourth quarter of this year. This rising unrest has taken the form of mass demonstrations, ethnic or religious violence, and increasing labor protest.
Predictably, Maplecroft determined that Hong Kong has been especially hard hit. Due to its massive democracy protests this month, the Chinese-administered region fell 62 places on the firm's stability ranking. It is now the 70th most unstable country in the world and is placed at "high risk."
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My Comment: An interesting analysis on global risk. Maplecroft's website is here.
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If Obama thinks the world is spinning out of control now, he ain't seen nothing yet.
One of the key things he could do is to get the U.S. economy growing again. It is not a panacea and will not help everything but it would be a good start. For one it was said that when the U.S. sneezed china caught t a cold. They is probably not as true 10 or 15 years later, but every little bit helps.
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An economist could have drawn this map looking at other, economic, measures.
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