Emergency management necessarily requires collaboration across multiple layers and units of government. A country’s governance and intergovernmental system shapes its approaches to emergency management. This article focuses on two countries that have different governing systems—China and the...

In the past decade, many microcredit programs havebeen created in the United States that replicate designs features of theircounterparts in the third world. The determinants of loan repayment are studiedfor four of the oldest microcredit programs in the US: the NeighborhoodEntrepreneurship...