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Roubini Global Economics | americas@ Tel: 212.645.0010 | europe@ / asia@ Tel: +44 (0) 207 420 2800 March 2013 ? Roubini Global Economics Copyright 2012 No reproducing or redistribution without written consent. Methodology Document ? Aon measured political risk in 163 countries and territories to assess various risk levels within each country. The countries are consistently rated on a scale from Low to Very High. European Union and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries are not rated in the map. ? Country ratings reflect a combination of analysis by Aon Risk Solutions, Roubini Global Economics—a global analysis and advisory firm—and the opinions of 26 Lloyds syndicates and corporate insurers actively writing political risk insurance. 2 | americas@ Tel: 212.645.0010 | europe@ / asia@ Tel: +44 (0) 207 420 2800 ? Roubini Global Economics (RGE) is the independent, global macroeconomic strategy research firm built by renowned economist Nouriel Roubini. ? RGE gives clients a view into the dynamics and developments within the global economy and shows how those changes could impact their business decision-making process. ? RGE covers the world through both a team country economists and strategists and its systematic country risk monitoring and analysis tool, Quantitative Country Analytics. 3 | americas@ Tel: 212.645.0010 | europe@ / asia@ Tel: +44 (0) 207 420 2800 ? Aon partnered with RGE to produce the 2013 Political Risk Map in order to take advantage of RGE’s unique methodology, Quantitative Country Analytics (QCA), for systematically analysing political risks around the world. This quantitative approach allows RGE and its partners to track changes in countries systematically, allows more meaningful cross-country comparisons, and most importantly allows each political risk to be decomposed to the various elements that drive that risk. ? The shift to RGE also allows Aon to add t