Sovereign Credit Risk Assessment with Multiple Criteria Using an Outranking Method

Table 1

Criteria selected for the model and their preference direction.

CRITERIA FOR THE MODEL
1	GDP per capita (current US$)	Increasing
2	Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)	Increasing
3	Gross savings (% of GDP)	Increasing
4	Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$)	Increasing
5	GDP at market prices (current US$)	Increasing
6	Total reserves (includes gold, current US$)	Increasing
7	GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)	Increasing
8	Lending interest rate (%)	Decreasing
9	Real interest rate (%)	Decreasing