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,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Introduction -- MIGA's Purpose and Development Mandate -- Evaluation Program -- Project Evaluation Findings -- Assessing MIGA's Role and the Use of its Resources -- Case Studies -- Case Study 1 -- Case Study 2 Case Study 2 --...

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...