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Country Analysis Report - USA - In-depth PESTLE Insights
MarketLine, May 2011, Pages: 76
Introduction
The country analysis report on United States provides a wide array of analytical inputs to analyze the country’s performance, and the objective is to help the reader to make business decisions and prepare for the future. The report on United States analyzes the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure of United States. The report provides a holistic view of United States from historical, current and future perspective. Insightful analysis on critical current and future issues is presented through detailed SCPT (strengths, challenges, prospects and threats /risks) analysis for each of the PESTLE segments. In addition, the PESTLE segments are supplemented with relevant quantitative data to support trend analysis. The PESTLE country analysis report series provides an in-depth analysis of 50 major countries.
Features and Benefits
- Understanding gained from the country analysis report on United States can be used to plan business investments or market entry apart from a holistic view of the country.
- Political section on United States provides inputs about the political system, key figures in the country, and governance indicators.
- Economic section on United States outlines the economic story of the country to provide a balanced assessment on core macro-economic issues.
- Social section on United States enables understanding of customer demographics through the income distribution, rural-urban segmentation and centres of affluence, healthcare and educational scenario in the country.
- Technological section on United States provides strategic inputs on information communications and technology, technological laws and policies, technological gaps, patents data and relevant laws.
- Legal section on United States provides information about the legal structure, corporate laws, business set-up procedures and the tax regime.
- Environmental section provides information on environmental policies in United States and the performance in terms of important environmental indicators.
Highlights
PESTLE analysis of United States identifies issues that affect the country’s performance through the prism of current strengths (strengths), current challenges (weaknesses), future prospects (opportunities) and future risks (threats).
The political landscape discusses the evolution of the political scenario in United States in different periods. The economic, social, foreign and defence policies are considered in the political landscape section. It also discusses the performance of the country as per World Bank Governance Indicators.
The economic landscape describes the evolution of the economy of United States in different periods. It also examines the country’s performance in terms of GDP growth, composition by sector (agriculture, industry and services), fiscal situation, international investment position, monetary situation, credit disbursement, banking sector and employment. The economic landscape also explains the financial system in the country, especially with regard to financial authorities/regulators.
The social landscape covers the demographics, education and healthcare scenario in United States. The social welfare policies of the government along with the country’s performance in terms of healthcare, income distribution and education are also provided.
The technological landscape discusses the structure and policies in terms of Intellectual property, research & development, technology agreements/pacts; and policies related to the promotion of technology in United States.
The legal landscape examines the structure of the judicial system, legislation affecting businesses, tax regulations, labor laws, trade regulations and corporate governance in United States.
The environmental landscape in United States discusses the environmental regulations and policies of the country. The performance of the country in terms of in terms of environmental indicators and impact of environmental policies is also examined.
'The US is the largest economy in the world, with a GDP of more than $11tn in 2010. After the economic boom of the 1990s, growth slowed down after 2000. The events of September 11 further contributed to the economic slowdown. Despite this, the economy managed an average growth of 2.6% during 2000–06. However, in the second half of 2006 the US economy started decelerating below the long-term growth trend. The economic slump continued in 2007, mainly due to the slowdown in the housing market and the subprime crisis. The economy registered growth of 2% during 2007 and 0% during 2008, with real GDP contracting by 2.6% in 2009. The US returned to growth in the third quarter of 2009, as the economy expanded by 3.5%; this was followed by growth of 2.8% in 2010. Datamonitor forecasts indicate that the growth rate is expected to drop to 2.2% in 2011.'
Your key questions answered
- What is the outlook in terms of political stability, policies towards businesses, external front and popularity of government in United States?
- What is the economic performance of United States in terms of GDP growth, fiscal situation, international investment position, monetary situation, credit disbursement, and employment among other economic indicators?
- What is the performance of United States in terms of healthcare, income distribution and education?
- What is the performance of United States in technology intensive sectors like telecommunications and information technology, patents and R&D expenditure trends?
- What is the legal structure in United States and are the laws conducive for investment?
- What is the performance of United States in terms of environmental indicators and impact of environmental policies?
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