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Economics

Illinois Wesleyan University

1990

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The United States Postal Service: A Government Corporation Requiring Changes: Past, Present, Future, Brian Harper '90 Apr 1990

The United States Postal Service: A Government Corporation Requiring Changes: Past, Present, Future, Brian Harper '90

Honors Projects

This project determines the cost of maintaining the postal service currently. It explores whether this cost is justifiable on the grounds of "binding the Nation together" or if these costs are "impairing the overall value of such service to the people". Whether these costs are viewed as reasons for continued postal deficits or seen as the need for radical changes in the structure and operation of the postal service (even to the point of creating a private corporation from it) will determine the future course of action in regard to it.


Estimating The Risk Of Third World Debt, Jane Chadesh '90 Apr 1990

Estimating The Risk Of Third World Debt, Jane Chadesh '90

Honors Projects

In August 1982, Mexico announced that it was unable to meet its debt obligations then falling due. Since this announcement more than 40 countries have been forced to reschedule on debt owed to commercial banks. Commercial banks have been criticized for blindly providing the lesser developed countries (LDCs) more credit and exposing themselves to more and more risk. For example, six months prior to Mexico's announcement that it could not meet its debt obligations, Mexico had been granted 6.4 billion dollars in new loans to make a total of 84 billion dollars in loans that needed to be rescheduled. If …