Monday, May 21, 2012

Weekly Blog post - Week 8

NZ rated highly for investment safety

This article reports that New Zealand has been ranked, according to Dun and Bradstreet's global risk (GRI) indicator, fourth in its region and in the top 20 in the world for investment safety.  This is the result of New Zealand having relatively low economic uncertainty.  While this does show promise for New Zealand, some are still concerned that the uncertainty in Western Europe could lead to some deterioration in New Zealand.

Economic uncertainty is one factor that firms consider when deciding whether or not to expand their business into a country.  New Zealand's high world rankings in this category add to the attractiveness of the country as a place to start a new business or expand a business into.  This directly relates to our consulting firm project where we had to evaluate our study abroad country based on its economic conditions.


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