In 1989 the revolutions in several Eastern European countries brought an end to The Soviet European empire and ultimately the Cold War. This paper examines the effect the end of the Soviet threat had on America's foreign assistance programs in general, and specifically on US attempts to aid the...

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the potential benefits that arise from a cooperative selling a government subsidized area-yield contract (i.e., the Group Risk Plan). The indeminities in area-yield contracts are triggered by a geographically determined yield (e.g., a...

"Small business" is a designation that includes businesses of many different sizes with varying financial needs and access to credit. Microenterprises — businesses with fewer than five employees — are served primarily by the small-dollar loan market, which ranges from payday lending to...