In a press release dated on July 15, 2014 GMI Ratings “introduced Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) ratings on 9,000 companies in nearly 60 emerging market countries. GMI’s AGR ratings capture a variety of accounting irregularities and corporate governance weaknesses associated with negative events. With the addition of emerging market companies, GMI now offers AGR ratings on almost 29,000 companies worldwide.”
You may read the press release on the GMI internet site.