Lloyd's Risk Index 2013

The slowdown in growth has made the world a newly challenging place for the more recently developing nations

 

FOREWORD BY DR RICHARD WARD

When the first Lloyd’s Risk Index was published in 2009, few thought that the world would not yet be emerging from the economic crisis that gripped it at the time.  Four years on, not only is much of Europe still at a very low economic ebb, previously buoyant growth  projections for economies including China and India have been revised downwards.   A global recovery remains stalled, customer

demand is in the doldrums and we have had glimpses of social unrest on the streets of the worst hit nations. The ‘state of flux’ affecting the global economy described in our 2011 Risk Index now appears to have become more entrenched than anyone anticipated.

It is against this backdrop that we asked Ipsos MORI to carry out the third Lloyd’s Risk Index, a survey of global business leaders’  perceptions of the greatest risks to their businesses and the level to which they believe they feel prepared to deal with them.

The 2013 Lloyd’s Risk Index reveals a great deal, but three key themes have emerged:

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