Role Insurance Economic Development
Provo printing museum: Labor of love, risk of loss
The man who developed the printing press in Europe in the 1400s, Johannes Gutenberg, was foreclosed on and lost his presses before his major project — the printing of the Bible in Latin — was comple
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Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States (Natural Hazards and Disasters: Reducing Loss and … in a Hazardous World: A Series) $46.51 This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disasters – and how insurance programs can successfully be used with other policy tools, such as building codes and standards, to encourage effective loss reduction measures. The authors discuss the reasons for the dramatic increase in insured losses from natural disasters since… |
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Development and Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Institutions $44.59 “The principal role played by the financial system in any country is to provide the infrastructure to allow surplus resources to be allocated to those individuals and companies with deficits. The positive impact of a functioning financial system upon economic growth of a country is well documented. In most countries, the financial system extends beyond traditional banking institutions to include i… |
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Project Finance in Developing Countries: IFC’s Lessons of Experience $16.88 “Project finance to developing countries surged in the decade before the Asian crisis … The financial crisis that began in East Asia … has brought a dramatic slowdown in this trend.” Project finance structuring techniques were used to attract international financing for many large-scale projects, helping to meet investment needs in infrastructure and other sectors. However, the crisis in East … |