Political and economic stability

Hungary has one of the world's most stable emerging economies, according to an index produced by Lehman Brothers and Eurasia Group, a firm that analyses political risk. The index tries to measure a country's ability to withstand crises and to avoid generating them. Political factors are given a weighting of 60%; economic factors account for the rest. China, included in the index for the first time, is reckoned to be slightly less stable than Thailand, South Africa and Brazil, where stability has dropped thanks to pre-election worries; but it is more stable than Russia.