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Across the EU, the European Parliament still has higher approval ratings, on average, than national parliaments.
Moreover, the European Parliament retains much higher trust than the US Congress, which has approval ratings that are now below 10%.
The major ratings agencies are increasingly complaining about the country’s lack of a growth strategy and its outsize budget deficits.
While the IFE undoubtedly committed several serious public-relations mistakes during last year’s election, it remains one of Mexico’s most respected institutions, with credibility ratings that are regularly double or triple those of Congress and the three political parties.
A Financial Early-Warning SystemNEW YORK – Recent market volatility – in emerging and developed economies alike – is showing once again how badly ratings agencies and investors can err in assessing countries’ economic and financial vulnerabilities.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
But ratings agencies and analysts who misjudged the repayment ability of debtors – including governments – have gotten off too lightly.
In principle, credit ratings are based on statistical models of past defaults; in practice, however, with few national defaults having actually occurred, sovereign ratings are often a subjective affair.
Analysts at ratings agencies follow developments in the country for which they are responsible and, when necessary, travel there to review the situation.
This process means that ratings are often backward-looking, downgrades occur too late, and countries are typically rerated based on when analysts visit, rather than when fundamentals change.
Moreover, ratings agencies lack the tools to track consistently vital factors such as changes in social inclusion, the country’s ability to innovate, and private-sector balance-sheet risk.
And yet sovereign ratings matter tremendously.
For many investors, credit ratings dictate where and how much they can invest.
Ratings affect how much banks are willing to lend, and how much developing countries – and their citizens – must pay to borrow.
Given the problems with ratings agencies, investors and regulators recognize the need for a different approach.
Regulators, meanwhile, are now starting to require banks to develop their own internal ratings processes.
The corruption scandal at energy giant Petrobras is finally causing ratings agencies to reassess Brazil, but the move comes too late, and their downgrades probably will not be sufficient to reflect the true risk.
In the eurozone, shadow ratings already signaled red flags in the late 2000s in Greece and the other countries of the periphery.
To that extent, it provides exactly what the world needs now: an approach that removes the need to rely on the ad hoc and slow-moving approach of ratings agencies and the noisy and volatile signals coming from markets.
Yet he leaves office with substantially higher approval ratings than most presidents achieve – and far higher than Trump’s.
Among other things, Basel III stipulates that banks do not have to set aside cash against their investments in government bonds with ratings of AA- or higher.
But, in many cases, politics has become a matter of self-promotion – and a race for ratings.
Add to that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia, as well as the administration’s plummeting approval ratings, and it is easy to understand why some are doubting whether they should bother to engage with Trump at all.
The distorted picture of Nigeria’s economy provided by the previous statistics likely led to misguided decisions regarding private investment, credit ratings, and taxation.
President Dilma Rousseff has done much to earn her single-digit approval ratings.
Nor is it enough to follow the dictates of international financial markets – that may get good bond ratings and please international investors, but it does not mean that jobs are being created or that standards of living are being increased for most citizens.
Borobio, who organized the presidential advertising campaigns for both Fujimori and Toledo, declared from exile in Chile that two of Toledo's brothers had secretly hired him to help "slow down the president's fall from popularity, improve his public image, and raise his ratings."
But if that were true, there would not be so much jockeying over credit ratings, the World Bank’s Doing Business rankings, or even Olympic medals.
Short-term pressures will always be present, but they can be overcome with the proper tools: improved pricing of environmental risks, climate-sensitive credit ratings, environmental lender liability, and efforts to mitigate the environmental risks to financial stability.
For example, Kenya, in a bid to attract private investors, has provided shadow credit ratings of 43 utilities.
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