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we are doing a group paper
we are a sports goods brand that sell sneaker and trying to enter UK market and my parts is country risk
so need to analysis the country risk of UK if we enter the market of sports good in uk. plz only used the data that is 4 years before 2016 only.

Country Risk Country risk (also known as political risk)

■ Differences in host country political, legal and economic regimes may adversely impact firm profitability.

■ Also, laws, regulations and indigenous factors e.g. property rights, intellectual-property protection, product liability, taxation policies, inflation, national debt, and unbalanced international trade, may encumber firm operations and performance.

■ Government intervention: restricts market access; imposes bureaucratic procedures hindering business transactions; and limits the amount of earned income that firms may repatriate from foreign operations.

■ Economic freedom differs among nations- Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are known as having the highest levels of economic freedom, see:

(http://www.heritage.org).
below are some useful link that provide from the professor, plz used those
https://www.prsgroup.com/
https://www.ihs.com/products/country-risk-analyst.html
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/nato_countries.htm
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/united-kingdom.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3846.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/allcountries.asp?view=region

http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p=5,4,1,116

http://www.businessmonitor.com/

http://www.eldis.org/country

http://www.euromonitor.com/

http://www.ft.com/cms/95d63dfa-257b-11dc-b338-000b5df10621.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/index.html

http://www.geohive.com/earth/

http://www.happyplanetindex.org/map.htm

http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_30/b3893138.htm

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=2443&lang=1

http://enr.construction.com/people/topLists/topIntlCont/topIntlCont_1-50.asp