How stable is the political environment? What are current and forecast interest rates?
What are local taxation policies, and how do these affect your business?
What is the level of inflation, what is it forecast to be, and how does this affect the growth of your market? Is the government involved in trading agreements such as EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, or others?
What are local employment levels per capita and how are they changing?
What are the foreign trade regulations? What are the long-term prospects for the economy gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and so on?
What are the social welfare policies? What are exchange rates between critical markets and how will they affect production and distribution of your goods?
