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Political Risk Insurance Center - Addressing Political Risk in the Extractive Sector
Addressing Political Risk in the Extractive Sector

 

With resource nationalism on the rise, lenders are turning to political risk insurance to mitigate risks in the extractive sector, says a recent article by Export Development Canada.  These risks are becoming more significant according to a Client Alert by Latham & Watkins. A new issue of MIGA Perspectives presents voluntary tools that companies may use to ease such risks, but proposes that ultimately risk mitigation is achieved through political risk insurance.

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Research and Tools

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Expropriation: Pakistan's Message to Foreign Investors (February 2010) International Risk Management Institute
Doing Business in a Volatile World Treasury and Risk
International Energy Outlook 2009 US Energy Information Administration

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