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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820921503321

Titolo

Looking to the future / / Theodore H. Moran and Gerald T. West, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2005

ISBN

1-280-16489-1

9786610164899

0-8213-6155-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 251 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm

Collana

International political risk management ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

MoranTheodore H. <1943->

WestGerald T <1944-> (Gerald Thomas)

Disciplina

658.155

Soggetti

Risk (Insurance) - Developing countries

Risk management - Developing countries

Investment guaranty insurance - Developing countries

Investments, Foreign - Developing countries

Political stability - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency"--Cover.

"The papers and commentary in this volume are based on the discussion ... at the ... Symposium on International Political Risk Management hosted by MIGA and Georgetown University, held November 12, 2004"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Part One Learning from Recent Losses, Claims, and Arbitrations; Overview; Tales from the Dark Side: Lessons Learned from Troubled Investments; Learning from OPIC's Experience with Claims and Arbitration; Discussion of Learning from Recent Losses, Claims, and Arbitrations; Part Two The Emergence of New International Property Rights and the Role of Political Risk Insurance in Project Finance; Overview; The New International Property Rights: Can the Foreign Investor Rely on Them?

The Future of Political Risk Insurance in International Project Finance: Clarifying the Role of Expropriation CoverageDiscussion of the Emergence of New International Property Rights and the Role of Political Risk Insurance in Project Finance; Part Three The Evolution of Private-



Public Relationships in the Political Risk Insurance Industry; Overview; The Future of the International Political Risk Insurance Industry; Perspectives on Private-Public Relationships in Political Risk Insurance; Discussion of the Evolution of Private-Public Relationships in Political Risk Insurance

Part Four New Products and New Perspectives in Political Risk InsuranceOverview; The Use of Political Risk Insurance to Support Emerging Market-Based Issuers; Currency Transfer and Convertibility Coverage: An Old Reliable Product or Just an Old Product?; Discussion of New Products and New Perspectives in Political Risk Insurance; Appendixes; I Biographies of Authors; II Whither the Political Risk Insurance Industry?; III Previous Volumes in the Series; IV More About MIGA; Index

Sommario/riassunto

International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry. These assessments come from a dozen senior practitioners from the investor, financial, insurance, broker, and analytical communities. The volume leads off by examining the lessons that can be learned from recent investment losses, insurance claims, and arbi