Publisher's Synopsis
This series provides a reference tool in the form of a collection of analyses of the environment for trade, investment and business in each of the 21 countries of current world interest. Addressing politics and economics, these essays present a comprehensive and critical review of the events that shape each country's role as an international economic partner in the past year. Each country is presented in three parts; a summary of events in both politics and economics; an in-depth look at the year's events in economics, including a five-year table of leading indictors. Each of the in-depth sections is further divided under a series of substantive "headlines" announcing the leading events of the year.