Country Study

Who it's for

Students on international business or area-studies courses, investors and fund analysts, operators and founders choosing where to expand, procurement and supply chain leads, and anyone weighing a move abroad.

Output

• Six sourced reports on the country, the city, the political risk, the rules, the trade corridor and the suppliers, each with a confidence rating on every section
• An audit trail of the claims checked against their named sources
• A country study written from the reports, in the participant's own words
• Every report rests on named, cited sources

Program contents

1. Country picture — Country Intelligence
2. City picture — City Intelligence
3. Political risk — Geopolitical Risks
4. Regulatory picture — Regulatory Environment
5. Trade corridor — Cross-Border Trade Analysis
6. Supply exposure — Supplier Landscape

How the program works

A self-serve program for students, investors and anyone evaluating a country, working alone, built on Renatus. Six research rooms · Six weeks, one room a week · Unlimited attempts · Ongoing thereafter.

The rooms

Why this program exists

You are deciding about a country on too little evidence: a growth figure, a news story, a colleague who went once. The decision that follows is a market entry, an investment, a relocation, a supply contract or a dissertation, and it deserves a sourced picture, not a hunch. This program prepares you through research. Ren researches your country, one subject at a time, from named public and institutional sources, and writes a sourced report on each, footnoted and rated for confidence.

What you'll achieve

1. Six sourced reports on one country: the economy and institutions, the city you'd operate from, the political risks, the rules for your sector, the trade corridor, and who supplies your inputs, each with a confidence rating on every section
2. An audit trail of the claims you checked against their named sources, and what held
3. A country study of your own, written from the reports in your own words, ready to submit, defend or decide from
4. Unlimited re-runs of any report as the country changes, each a new, dated version to set beside the last

At a glance

Who it's for

Students on international business, development or area-studies courses; investors and fund analysts sizing a market; operators and founders choosing where to expand; procurement and supply chain leads; and anyone weighing a move abroad. It assumes you have one country in mind. Four of the six reports also need a sector, even a loose one, and the last two need your home country, what you'd trade, and the inputs you depend on; name them loosely at the start and sharpen them as the reports come in.

Cadence

6 weeks

1

Country picture · Country Intelligence · Read the outlook and the index value; note one thing that would have surprised you from the news alone

2

City picture · City Intelligence · Read the cost base against a peer city; audit three claims

3

Political risk · Geopolitical Risks · Read the rated risks and the signals; write the risk table for your study

4

Regulatory picture · Regulatory Environment · Read licensing and enforcement; audit three claims

5

Trade corridor · Cross-Border Trade Analysis · Read tariffs and the friction points; audit three claims

6

Supply exposure · Supplier Landscape · Read dependency and switching costs; audit three claims

Session by session