Intelligence that moves you forward
Global insights and market intelligence
We enable our clients to navigate the increasingly complex global environment, to analyse political and economic developments, forecast economic trends, and understand country-specific regulations and business practices.
We empower the world’s leading organisations to
Be prepared
Be prepared
Gain insight into economic, policy and geopolitical developments
Plan effectively
Plan effectively
Get reliable future macro-events predictions
Examine risk
Examine risk
Explore potential challenges to your business objectives
Explore new markets
Explore new markets
Create market-entry strategies that grow your business
Risk outlook 2024
Explore how geopolitical tensions, the advent of new technologies and persistent environmental threats could upset the outlook in 2024.
Strategic insight, tailored to your sector
Financial services
Manage risk and make informed decisions through access to our financial risk ratings and market-leading macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis.
Government institutions
Explore international business opportunities, support domestic growth and direct foreign policy by exploring the economic, political and policy conditions in nearly 200 countries.
Corporates
Identify new markets and mitigate risks to existing activity through our operational risk ratings, business environment rankings and industry forecasts.
Academic institutions
Empower students to understand events and trends that are reshaping our world with access to our world-class country data, forecasts and analysis.
Solutions we offer
Country Analysis
Bringing together award-winning analysis, insight and data into one integrated solution, Country Analysis provides you with precision tools to seize opportunities and weigh risks effectively across nearly 200 countries.
Operational Risk
Identify, compare and mitigate the operational threats to your organisation with our risk ratings, tracker and scenario watchlist, available for 180 countries.
Financial Risk
Our market-leading data and country expertise combined in a rigorous modelling framework, enabling businesses to monitor sovereign, currency and banking sector risks in 131 markets.
Speaker Bureau
Empower decision-making and inspire action with a speaking engagement from one of EIU’s subject-matter experts, available for events, boardroom briefings and executive development.
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Why EIU?
Depth of coverage
EIU has one of the largest and most experienced analyst teams in the world, with over 190 full-time country experts, industry analysts and economists.
Expertise
A proven methodology, the best analytical minds and decades of experience enable us to forecast with precision.
Independence
Editorial independence lies at the heart of The EIU, ensuring that all of our products and services are impartial and unbiased.
Featured special reports
Global monetary policy in 2023
EIU’s report, Global monetary policy in 2023, provides businesses with foresight of the critical global trends and threats that will shape interest rates, inflation and economic activity in the year ahead.
Democracy Index 2022
Alongside an explanation of the changes in the global rankings and an in-depth regional review, the latest edition of EIU’s Democracy Index report explores why democracy failed in Russia, how this led to the current war and why democracy in Ukraine is tied to its fight for sovereignty.
Commodities outlook 2023
EIU’s report, Commodities outlook 2023, provides businesses with foresight of the critical global trends and threats that will affect commodity prices in the year ahead.
Browse our global themes
Stay current on important trending topics that impact business decisions through our curated set of global themes.
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Every Friday our chief economist, Simon Baptist, provides a political and economic perspective of global events. Subscribe now to understand the trends that impact your business and investments.