Publications

• Asian Intelligence: This is our fortnightly newsletter. Once every two weeks we pick a relevant topic such as corruption, business costs, nationalism, foreign investment trends, etc. and examine it from the perspective of each individual country covered by our network as well as from a regional overview. Frequency: 25 issues per year. Cost: US$645 per year, which includes on-line access through PERC's www.asiarisk.com Website for one person in the subscribing organization .

• Country Risk Monitoring Service: These reports on the individual countries covered by our network show how and why business risks are changing in the country concerned and what companies should be watching for in the near and medium-term that could affect the business environment. Frequency: once a month for each of nine countries covered.  Cost: US$575 per year for on-line access to one country.  US$1,175 per year for on-line access for one person in the subscribing organization to all nine countries covered on PERC's www.asiarisk.com Website.  

• 2008 Corruption in Asia Cities Service:  The service examines the scale, trend and different aspects of corruption in Asia ’s leading business cities.  The first part of the service kicked off in late January 2008 with a report that focuses on the Greater China cities of Hong Kong , Macao , Shanghai and Beijing .  It presents the results of a survey of senior expatriate managers of 485 multinational banks and companies working in these cities. 

  The survey will be expanded to cover at least 11 other Asian cities, from Mumbai to Seoul , during the course of 2008.  The data will facilitate cross-city and cross-country comparisons of how graft is perceived by executives in the private sector who have to deal with the problem on a daily basis.  The service will not be limited to the 15 cities covered in the first year.  If enough subscribers show an interest in other cities, PERC will try to survey them as well.  The aim is to make the service as interactive as possible so it can be tailored to subscribers’ specific needs.

  The service examines how corruption affects different parts of the government, key institutions, and the private sector.  It shows how the trend of corruption is perceived by those actually exposed to it and provides numeric benchmarks that can be useful in evaluating whether your own perceptions are in line with the consensus view.

  In today’s world when corporate governance is a key issue and managers are faced with a growing number of compliance issues, PERC’s Corruption in Asian Cities Service provides an independent, objective framework for thinking about where the problems are most serious and why.  This is a cost and time effective way to get insights into one of the most important issues facing companies and organizations in Asia today. 

  Cost: US$4,950 per year, which includes the initial report on Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao, and additional cities added during the course of 2008, which will include Bangkok, Manila, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mumbai, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.