BERI OnLine Library
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BRS - Subscribe and receive qualitative analyses and quantitative ratings on 50 countries.


FORELEND - Subscribe and receive Lenders Risk Ratings and qualitative analyses on 50 countries.


HRRP - The Historical Ratings Research Package from BRS 1980-2006.


Automobile Study - Annual forecast report for over 65 non-OECD countries.


MERA - Mineral Extraction Risk Assessment - annual report of special country risk ratings for over 140 countries.


QWI - Measures effectiveness of workforce in 42 countries.


Financial Ethics Index  Qualitative Risk Measures in Foreign Lending.  The annual report covers 115 countries and measures factors that have a direct influence on meeting international obligations but that cannot be assessed through regularly published statistics.


Archive - Director's Perspective and Viewpoint archives. Read what Saruhan Hatipogliu and Dr. F. T. Haner have forecasted about our world's political environment.
Quick Response Country Reports - Provides comprehensive country risk assessments that bring together a variety of BERI S.A. reports to offer a complete analysis of a selected country.

The Quality of Workforce Index (QWI) is a detailed assessment of labor conditions in 42 countries (30 OECD*, 12 non-OECD) for 7 years of history, the present year, and forecast for next year. The report contains two industry-specific measures, Manufacturing and Services for each country. Data tables include individual criteria scores for each country. All countries are ranked according to categories of Advanced Economy, Industrializing Economies, and Developing Economies. Data files are easily imported into spreadsheet or database programs. This research package is available on CD-ROM or can be downloaded from this site.

  • Country by country rating summaries include subindicies for causes, symptoms, quantitative criteria and qualitative criteria for each year.
  • The report retains historical data from1990 to 2008.
  • Two industry-specific measures for each country: Manufacturing and Services.
  • Services section of the report includes:
      1.  Communications, storage, and transport.
    2. Finance, insurance, real estate, and other business services.
    3. retail and wholesale trade, hotel, and restaurants.
  • View the QWI Model.
  • Quality of Workforce Index explained in detail.
Order your copy of the Quality of Workforce Index

Country List for Quality of Workforce Index (QWI):


  Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China (P.R.C.)
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Korea (South)
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States