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PESTLE Analysis
PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental) is a framework for analyzing a firm's macro environment. PESTLE, sometimes PESTEL or PEST, analysis is used to look at a country and its potential as an investment destination.
Business intelligence firms such as MarketLine publish country reports that include PESTLE analyses. Other firms publish country reports that look at similar factors to a PESTLE analysis without using this framework.
MarketLine Country Reports With PESTLE Analyses
- MarketLine U.S. Country ProfilesMarketLine Country Profiles include PESTLE analyses. PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental) is a framework for evaluating the macroenvironmental factors that impact businesses.
- Business Source PremierMarketLine Country Profiles are available in Business Source Premier. Search for "MarketLine" and country. Then limit search results to country report.
Country Reports (Macro Environment)
Country reports focus on factors that shape the business environment in a particular country. Not all reports cover the same issues, but topics might include corruption, infrastructure, regulations, workforce, trade, and basic economic data.
- IHS Markit United States Country Monitor ReportsIHS Markit Country Monitor reports document political, economic, legal, operational, tax, and social stability risks for doing business in a country.
- IHS Markit Country Monitor ReportsThis canned search locates IHS Markit Country Monitor Reports in Business Source Premier. Reports document political, economic, legal, operational, tax, and social stability risks for doing business in a country.
- Word Bank Group Enterprise SurveysSurveys provide "investment climate indicators for a country with benchmarks against their respective regional and income groups."
- Coface Country Risk ReportsCoface provides country assessments, based on macroeconomic, financial and political data.
- Transparency International Country RatingsTransparency International monitors corruption on the national level and publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index.
