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Scarce tech talent vital to innovation and growth

If software and applications are the currency of the new economy, development teams are the market makers. Developers have gone from being a curiosity when I began my career to becoming a boardroom priority, especially as the pandemic and rapid digitisation that accompanied it has ratcheted up the urgency for business leaders.

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Why country risk matters

For investors, an assessment of country risk should seek to answer one key question: is the country under review an acceptable investment destination? If the answer is no, why would you invest there?