This publication provides a comparative study of insurance regulation and supervision in nineteen Latin American countries. It also includes materials prepared for two policy dialogue meetings, in Honduras in 2002 and in the Dominican Republic in 2003, between OECD Member countries and partner...

Insurance data include: all gross insurance premiums and those relating only to direct insurance; spending on insurance per capita; and the market share of national insurance by country, relative to the OECD market total.

Insurance spending is defined as the ratio of direct gross premiums to GDP, which represents the relative importance of the insurance industry in the domestic economy. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of GDP.

This special report assesses the impact of the crisis on the insurance sector and reviews policy responses within OECD countries. It is based to a large extent on a quantitative and qualitative questionnaire that was circulated to OECD countries in 2009. The report shows that generallythe...