Ten of the region’s 18 countries have suffered from score declines since December, led by Egypt and other unstable polities.

The southern continent’s risk build-up is underlined by falling scores for South Africa and Zimbabwe, but many other African bond issuers have resisted the downturn.

A broad rebalancing of country risk perceptions has taken place this year, according to the June results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.

Two-thirds of the region’s 18 countries have seen increased risk since December, not least because of the failure of Cyprus to recover its score decline following the banking crisis.

Among the G10, six countries – all EU member states – became riskier during H1 2013, one (Germany) was unchanged and four (Canada, Japan, Switzerland and the US) became safer.

Argentina and Venezuela continue long-term score declines; Brazil also slips, but Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay lead the improvement to 60% of LatAm’s 20 countries.

Eurozone slide is maintained with the region’s average score hitting a new low in June, as 10 of the 17 participating member states succumb to further score declines during H1 2013.

Turmoil places onus on whichever administration holds power to rectify economic imbalances.

Economists saw rising levels of country risk among Asian sovereigns in June as investors fled emerging market debt and equity markets, after the US Federal Reserve announced it will unwind its policy of quantitative easing (QE).

High debt levels and declining economic outlook continue to affect region’s risk profile.

Caribbean island receives new IMF loan to avoid default.

The Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia and Poland are well-buttressed against contagion from the eurozone crisis, according to the latest quarterly update from Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.

With Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey showing improved assessments for much of the Americas and Japan during Q1 2013, it is tempting to believe that the increased global risks seen in recent years are finally abating.

All of the G10 countries, with the notable exception of Sweden, saw their risks rise in 2012, according to the latest results from Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey – and not just because of the problems affecting the debt-ridden eurozone sovereigns.

The eurozone became even riskier in Q3 2012, according to the results of Euromoney’s Country Risk (ECR) survey. Spain, the world’s worst performer in the survey during that period, plummeted 14 places, while Italy and Slovenia registered increased risk too. Core economies Germany and France also got riskier in Q3, according to economists. However, there were signs that the worst might be over for the eurozone as a whole, with its average score deterioration slowing to 0.5 points on average in Q3, less than a third of the previous quarter’s fall.

The eurozone is leading most areas of the world in declining ECR scores, according to Euromoney’s country risk survey. The rise in risk is not as steep as in 2011, but it is a source of anxiety for ECR’s 400 experts.

Country risk analysts saw increased risk in all of the world’s main economic/geographical regions during the first six months of 2012, according to the Q2 2012 results of Euromoney’s Country Risk Survey.

The eurozone enjoys its strongest quarter since March 2010 in the latest results of Euromoney’s country risk survey, as European policymakers finally come to grips with the crisis. But lower scores for Greece and France suggest Europe is not out of the woods yet. Andrew Mortimer reports

Country risk scores deteriorate across the eurozone

Two economists give their view on whether the UK is more deserving of a downgrade than France, as part of a special snapshot from Euromoney Country Risk.

Poland, Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria receive worsening scores for economic risk

The euro crisis has already resulted in the region’s country risk scores falling by a greater margin than the Asian economies in 1997. That’s before any of the countries involved has actually defaulted. Andrew Mortimer asks: how many years will Europe take to recover?

Euromoney country risk - Full results

Country risk rankings are dropping sharply in the Eurozone periphery and across the entire Middle East, including Qatar which had been viewed as relatively immune to the fallout from the Arab Spring. Andrew Mortimer reports.

Economists still consider Senegal to be the riskiest Sub-Saharan issuer of sovereign debt, according to the latest results of the Euromoney Country Risk Africa survey.

The Republic of Cyprus retained its position at the top of the Euromoney Country Risk Central & Eastern European Rankings in March. However, with negative sentiment about Cyprus’s exposure to the Greek financial crisis increasing, questions remain over how long the country will retain its position at number one.

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Uncertainty continues to cloud the future of the Gulf region.

The arrival of GCC troops in Bahrain has escalated the security situation in the country to a new level. Senior Bahrain opposition MP Abdul Jalil Khalil, quoted by Reuters, described the crackdown on protesters by Bahraini security forces as a "war of annihilation". The hard-line stance taken by the regime has raised questions about the possibility for the current rulers of Bahrain to reach any kind of agreement with the protesters. As a consequence, Bahrain fell by 5 places in the official Euromoney Country Risk Rankings this week to 41st in the table. This followed the 6.7 point drop witnessed since the protest movement began in February.