The document is an assessment of the impacts of a large sample of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) assisted investments, reflecting to various degrees, the actual impacts in the twenty seven countries it operated. However, these differences should not mask the reality that,...

This article investigates the possibility of a contagion effect in each of fourteen Latin American republics from 1949 through 1963. Using a data set drawn from the Hispanic American Report, riot frequencies are compared with the Poisson and contagious Poisson distributions. The authors find...

The main subjects discussed in this publication, International Political Risk Management: Needs of the Present, Challenges of the Future, -providing coverage based on bilateral investment treaties (BITs), unifying terrorism and traditional political violence insurance, incorporating recent...

This publication is the third in a series of volumes based on the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the...