Country Insights was spun-off in 2011 from John Howell and Co Ltd, an advisory firm focusing on financial and economic policy and regulation. Country Insights was established to capitalise on the success of Quantitative Country Analytics (QCA), the analytical model that drives our research and consulting. QCA was developed in 2007 in response to demand from our investor clients who wanted a rigorous, consistently, transparent and low-cost means of comparing risk and strength across countries. Since 2007, QCA has grown to cover 174 countries, with more than 100 types of data for each country. As well as supporting advice to private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers and investment banks, QCA also support policy and regulatory advice to national and regional governments. We believe that QCA is the most sophisticated and comprehensive model of its kind available.