Country risk rating

In doing country risk rating for a country called Bapua-Ginny a country analyst made the following observations:

Variable/Ratio Weight Value Product

GNP growth 10 0.05

GNP/Population 5 0.50

Inflation -10 0.10

Reserves/ Imports	5	0.75
Current Account/ GNP	15	-0.15
Debt service ratio	-25	0.25
Debt/ GNP Political stability	-15 15	0.30 0.50

7. Based on the observations above the country analyst wants to calculate a country risk rating-score for this country. Please fill out last column entitled Product based on data provided.

8. Now calculate the country risk rating-score by adding all the numbers you entered in the column entitled Product in Question 7 above. How do you normalize this country risk rating-score? What possible use can this normalized country risk rating-score be for multinational financial-managers?