abstract:Political risk insurance is a type of insurance that can be taken out by businesses, of any size, against political risk—the risk that revolution or other political conditions will result in a loss.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): As you know, OPIC provides such assistance as financing and politicalriskinsurance that enables companies and private equity funds to support infrastructure projects and other investments in developing countries.
With respect to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), it prudently acted to suspended its programs in China and to halt its underwriting of additional politicalriskinsurance policies for that country before the President "asked" it to do so.