Social Risks provides a variety of research products, including country risk assessments for firms considering transnational investments or establishing sites for facilities. We prepare country reports on a monthly basis as well as at the request of clients. A typical client report includes more than ten social indicators - some are comprised of more than 20 - which are determined in consultation with the client. We customize our framework of social indicators by industry, region, or other client-specific considerations. Reports have included indicators such as freedom of expression, prevalence of child labor, and other local norms and practices; we also report to the client any relevant information revealed by our research but not covered by the research framework. Our aim is for the country risk assessments to support informed and long-term decision making by management.

We have chosen South Africa as a sample report - despite its presenting a number of social risks -because it has attracted substantial amounts of transnational investment. A corporation that takes proactive steps to mitigate those risks and optimize its social impact can do well in South Africa. The sample report assesses the current South African business environment through the frame of Social Risks' top ten social risks for 2009, which can be found here. An additional risk, inequality, is so significant in the South African context that it bears inclusion.