For now, the markets have put Spain in Italy's sovereign risk class when, in our view, it should be closer to Portugal and Ireland once its banking sector problems are recognised.
The nation is also saving for its future, putting aside revenue earned from offshore petroleum fields in a world class sovereign wealth fund that now holds more than $10 billion for future generations.
Consider a world-class sovereign fund like Norway's.
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At the end of 2008 61% of sovereign bond issuers were classed as investment grade by Moody's, a rating agency.
The growth of democracy imposed important limitations upon the power of the sovereign and of the ruling classes.
And Russia was well out of the class of most troubled sovereign borrowers in the current crisis.
Our approach enables us to take into account the non-exchangeable behavior of a sovereign debts' portfolio clustered into several classes with homogeneous risk and to recover a possible risks' hierarchy.
Mr Ivanov classes Russia as one of the "sovereign democracies"—countries able to make autonomous decisions.
The message that, at a time of worldwide jitters over sovereign debt, Britain is determined not to be classed with the likes of Greece is welcome.
