Some emerging economies are safer than developed countries. According to recent research by COFACE (Compagnie Française d'Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur), a French foreign trade insurance company, the scoreboard of solvency risk countries (the likelihood that a country will pay off its foreign debt) has improved slightly since the previous scoreboard (September 2010). Of the over 80 countries examined, the only two to be downgraded or be given a negative comment were Ireland and...