Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit is the world's foremost provider of country, industry and management analysis. Founded in 1946 when a director of intelligence was appointed to serve The Economist, the Economist Intelligence Unit is now a leading research and advisory firm with more than 40 offices worldwide.
For over 60 years, the Economist Intelligence Unit has delivered vital business intelligence to influential decision-makers around the world. Our extensive international reach and unfettered independence make us the most trusted and valuable resource for international companies, financial institutions, universities and government agencies.
Our mission is to provide executives with authoritative analysis and forecasts to make informed global decisions.
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Globalisation Index: Methodology and key findingsThe Economist Intelligence Unit’s research is designed to perform two key functions: first, to assess the current extent to which individual countries around the world are embracing globalisation; and second, to track on an ongoing basis corporate perceptions and responses to the changing landscape of globalisation across their operations and...
The Global Peace IndexThe Global Peace Index was founded by Steve Killelea, an Australian international technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. It forms part of the Institute for Economics and Peace, a new global think tank dedicated to the research and education of the relationship between economic development, business and peace. The Global Peace Index is collated...
Review of the regulatory environment in IrelandThe two broad objectives of the review have been to benchmark Irish economic sectoral regulators against comparable international practice, and to prepare conclusions and recommendations on how structures in Ireland might be improved. It has examined both the overall system of economic regulation and, as case studies, the operation of selected sector-specific...
Assessment of Hong Kong’s telecommunications sector
The Economist Intelligence Unit was commissioned by a global telecommunications services provider to understand the evolution of the telecommunications market in the financial services, logistics and government sectors.
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Published March 2009
The world economy is at grave risk of entering a depression, in which developed-world growth rates average less than 1% per annum between 2009 and 2013, according to a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The depression scenario carries a 30% probability, while there is a 60% chance that the stimulus operations now...
When the US Federal Reserve rescued Bear Stearns, an investment bank, in March it elevated the subprime mortgage meltdown to historic levels, alongside the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash, the 1992 attack on the British pound, Mexico’s 1994 “tequila” crisis and 1997-8’s triple whammy—Thailand’s currency devaluation,...
The tremors in financial markets have gone far beyond their beginnings in the US subprime mortgage sector, and indeed far beyond the borders of the US. The full impact on the markets and the repercussions on the global economy remain unclear, but a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts that the most alarming threat to global financial...
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