While clarity has begun to emerge in some of the countries affected by the Arab Spring, the resulting tension has spurred or intensified protests in dozens of countries—and this remains a concern for businesses operating in those nations, says Aon.
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk-management business of Chicago-based insurance-broker Aon Corp., made this assessment as it released its 2012 Political Risk Map on Feb. 8. The map measures political risk in 167 countries and territories to assess different risk levels.
“These uprisings and protests remain a key concern in 2012, and we see this reflected in rating downgrades of several countries,” Roger Schwartz, senior vice president of political risk for Aon Risk Solutions' crisis-management practice, says in a statement. “This is forcing [CEOs and CFOs] of businesses with overseas operations in emerging markets to revisit risk-management and risk-mitigation measures.”
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