Comprehensive PEST Analysis of Six Global Countries: A Business Study

This report presents a PEST (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) analysis of six countries: China, the UK, India, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. The analysis examines various factors impacting business environments, including geographical features, economic indicators like GDP and trade, socio-cultural aspects such as consumer behavior and labor markets, and political-legal considerations like government regulations and stability. Each country's section details specific elements affecting business operations, such as resource availability, market size, cultural adaptability, and the impact of government policies and trade relations. The report highlights key challenges and opportunities within each country, offering a comparative overview of the business landscapes and providing insights into the diverse factors that shape global business strategies. References are provided to support the analysis.

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SIX COUNTRIES PEST ANALYSIS
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1SIX COUNTRIES PEST ANALYSIS
Pest analysis China:
Factors Elements affecting business
Geographical  China has great physical diversity
 Largest country of the world
 Connecting east and west Asian trade
 Huge water resource through rivers and seas
 Dense deposition of metal ore and other minerals
 Huge land resources to support any type of industry.
Economic  This is the second largest economy of the world and
continuously growth GDP rate (Song, Sun & Jin, 2017)
 The citizen tend to save in high rates
 Export business is high
 The county has the high deposited of the natural resources like
coal, iron and other raw materials supporting the automobile
industry
Socio-cultural  Collective organizational culture that supports growth for all
 High standard of life
 Availability of skilled yet cheap labor
 Changing social trends and efficient adaptability
 Largest population in the world
 High dependence on education and Confucian philosophy of
business operation
 Feeling of nationalism is high and respect for the culture
Political legal  Single party rule and stable government
 Government engages in surveillance of any type of business

2SIX COUNTRIES PEST ANALYSIS
with in the country.
 Strict rules on e-commerce
 limited regulations on intellectual property and piracy
 government supports foreign investment in trade
 trade war against USA had affected the business of China
Pest analysis UK
Factors Elements affecting business
Geographical  It is a sovereign state located in northwestern part of Europe
 The UK occupies major portion of the British archipelago
 It is a small country lies between the north sea and north
Atlantic
 It consists of lowland terrain, upland mountains and sounded by
seas
 Sea level frequently changes
 It does not have much deposited of raw material supportive of
industry
Economic  Diversified and developed economy
 Scope for private and public companies to work simultaneously
 Scopes of forming direct investment
 High per capita income
 Positive changes in the interest rate
 New strategies to encourage new entrepreneurship
 High GDP growth rate (Masood et al., 2016)
Socio-cultural  Huge and lucrative market

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 Preference for luxurious car brands
 High buying capacity of people
 Skilled labor
 High standard of life due to high income
 Supportive work culture
Political legal  Stable and supportive government
 Well hidden corruption
 Strong and strict regulations for business
 National and local government maintain proper connection of
hierarchy so that no confusion arises
 Trade war between America and China has affected the business
greatly
 Main business issue now relates to the Brexit problem
 Government invests hugely on developing business
infrastructure
Pest analysis India
Factors Elements supporting business
Geographical  situated in the Asia continent
 huge natural diversity
 effective land resources with different types of soil
 abundance supply of water resources with numerous river and
surrounded by sea from three sides
 easily accessible by the gulf countries from the west and the
eastern Asian countries from east

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Economic  emerging economy
 sharp GDP growth
 increasing per capita incomes
 reduced dependency on agricultural sector
 well-structured tax system supports corporate growth (Sridhar et
al., 2016)
 changing economic polices
 liberalization of foreign capital
 less dependence of import
Socio-cultural  second height population leading to become lucrative market
 emerging idle class showing interest to buy high end cars
 increasing buying capacity
 stable oil price
 high cultural adaptability
 abundant skilled yet cheap labor
 young generation shows great interest in buying branded
products
Political legal  local business gets highly influenced by the political system
 largest democracy of the world
 corrupting among the administrative persons and political
leaders are high
 stable government yet multivariate political ideologies affect the
policies
 government supports international business and creating it to be
an emerging market after China

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 lengthy national decision making process as has bicameral
assembly system
 Increasing investment in building infrastructure to support local
and international business.
Pest analysis Canada
Factors Elements
Geographical  situated in the northern part of North America
 highly mountainous region
 temperate and frigid climate
 abundance of water
 Logging industry has flourished as the country has huge forests
 North and western parts are surrounded by oceans
Economic  One of the most noteworthy economy supporting of growth for
any industry especially wood and automobiles
 Free trade with Europe union (Dobuzinskis & Howlett, 2018)
 High growth rate of GDP
 Economy regulates oil price that determine selling of cars
 High per capita income
Socio-cultural  Migration from the neighboring countries has affected population
scenario
 Huge ad lucrative market
 High buying capacity of people
 High stranded of life
 Abundance of skilled labor

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 High preference for luxurious and high end cars
 Great organizational culture
 Language is not a barrier in this market
 Effective focus on the education as well as healthcare system
Political legal  Highly stable government
 Supportive of any type of industry
 Government has developed all the needed infrastructure for
investment
 Good diplomatic relation with other developed or developing
countries
 Strict laws regarding patent and intellectual properly laws
 Highly transparent government and no place for corruption
 Supporting trade agreements and employee rights regulations to
support the ethical practice of business
 E-commerce regulations are being developed.
Pest analysis Brazil
Factors Elements of business
Geographical  situated in the northern part of South America
 tropical climate in southern hemisphere
 one of the largest countries in the continent
 Amazon, second longest river situated in the amazon basin
 Huge diversity of flora and fauna in the most dense forest of
Amazon
 The country gets benefit for being supported by pacific ocean

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and Atlantic ocean
Economic  Gets huge inflow of FDI
 Strong hospitality and tourism sector
 Central bank reduces risks of currency devaluation
 Fast reducing wealth gap (Racz et al., 2018)
 Emerging economy with reduced risks of inflation
Socio-cultural  Growing middle class section gives scope for introduction of
new products and services
 Huge population gives opportunity for entering to the market
 Growing buying capacity
 Abundance of labor
 Preference for brand in luxurious products and high end cars
Political legal  More or less stable government
 Supportive of foreign investment
 Corruption level is high
 Increasing government investment in developing infrastructure
supportive of business
Pest analysis South Africa
Factors Elements
Geographical  Situated in the southern hemisphere
 Huge diversity of landmass and climate
 Diversity is found in the flora and fauna world
 Utility of landmass is low for deserts and barren soil
 High deposited of valuable minerals like diamond, Uranium

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 Abundance of water but not less accessible for industrial use
Economic  constant weakening of currency
 Low currency confuses companies for entering market
 Low GDP growth
 High exchange rate
 Over dependency on import
 High poverty leading unemployment
Socio-cultural  High wealth inequality among the people, most of the
population cannot afford luxurious products
 Abundance of cheap labor but they are not skilled
 No importance is put on education system or providing training
for starting business
 Unemployment ends to entrepreneurship zeal but financial
situation does not support growth
 Lowered buying capacity
 Issues of racial preferences
 People do not possess buying capacity therefore innovation is
not seen in manufacturing and variety of product is not available
for lowered profit
Political legal  Highly corrupted government, conflict for power
 Business does not have proper infrastructure
 No proper law for supporting foreign investment
 Low understanding of the necessity to educate people for
empowerment
 Little motivation for supporting local business

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 Local entrepreneurs do not get support from the government
 Low budget for the technological advancement
 Tax system is corrupted increasing wealth gap

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