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Life insurance is normally purchased to provide cash for three primary purposes: (1) for income for dependents in case of premature death, (2) for retirement income, and (3) for the payment of estate settlement costs such as debts, claims, lawyers’ fees, and estate taxes. Adequate insurance may prevent a forced sale of business assets on [...]

These four periods have been characterized by a general — although not universal — move from fixed exchange rate systems to convertible pegs and finally to freely floating exchange rates. In the mid-1970s, almost 90% of emerging market countries had some form of fixed/pegged exchange rate. As of the end of 2001, this had fallen [...]