Report Description
The Sudan Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Sudanese market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Sudan and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.
An influential new analysis of Sudan's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.
Key Uses
- Forecast
the pace and stability of Sudan's economic and industry growth through end-2014
- Identify
and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Sudan, to facilitate risk mitigation
- Assess
the critical shortcomings of Sudan's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
- Contextualise
Sudan's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
- Target
business opportunities in Sudan's high-growth industry sectors
- Evaluate
external threats to doing business in Sudan, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies
The Sudan Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections:
Sudan's Political Outlook,
Sudan's Economic Outlook and
Sudan's Business Environment.
Sudan's Political Outlook:
What are the political risks to doing business in Sudan over the next 5-years?
BMI's Sudan Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.
Sudan Political Outlook Contents
- SWOT Analysis for the Sudanese Market
Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Sudan.
- Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Sudan
BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Sudan's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
- Current Administration and Policy-making in Sudan
BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Sudanese government, assessing threats to the continuity of Sudanese economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
- Sudanese Foreign Policy
BMI examines key trends and shifts in Sudan's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.
Key Benefits
- Benchmark Sudan's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
- Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Sudan, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
- Gain valuable insights into the Sudanese government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.
Sudan's Economic Outlook:
How will Sudanese economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?
BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Sudan through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Sudanese growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.
Sudan Economic Outlook Contents
The Sudan Business Forecast Report
features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Sudanese government views. Underpinning our Sudan forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.
Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Sudan
- Economic Activity in Sudan
Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
- Fiscal Policy in Sudan
Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
- Monetary Policy in Sudan
Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
- Balance of Payments in Sudan
Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
- Foreign Direct Investment in Sudan
Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
- Sudanese External Debt
Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)
Key Benefits
- Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Sudan and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
- Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Sudan, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
- Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Sudanese government economic policy
Sudan's Business Environment:
Sudan's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis
Short and long-term business environment risk ratings for Sudan, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.
Country Competitiveness for Sudan
Competitiveness of Sudan's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.
Sudan Business Environment Contents
- Sudan's Domestic Environment.
Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
- Foreign Direct Investment in Sudan
Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
- Foreign Trade with Sudan
Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas