sector reform agenda where the World Bank Group (WBG) through the Finance Markets Global Practice (FMGP) can provide its …

This note summarizes the findings and conclusions of the review of the insurance sector in Mali. The review was … assess the structure, performance, and outlook of the insurance sector with respect to the potential for the sector to …'s population. The insurance market in Mali falls short of its potential today; however, its outlook is promising. This technical …

This assessment of insurance regulation in Indonesia was carried out as part of the 2016-17 Financial Sector Assessment … Program (FSAP). The Indonesian insurance sector is still vulnerable to a number of material risks. A number of insurers have … relaxed for nine months while introducing the temporary suspension of mark to market valuation rules. The Indonesian insurance …

. To manage the financial impacts of production shocks, the GoU seeks to use agricultural insurance to derisk rural lending … and expand access to rural credit for smallholders. In partnership with private insurance companies, the GoU launched the … Uganda Agriculture Insurance Scheme (UAIS) as a five-year pilot in July 2016. The objectives of the scheme are to ensure that …

On the basis of a real high stakes insurance experiment with small probabilities of losses, we demonstrate that concern … is a more important driver of WTP for insurance than subjective probability estimates when there is ambiguity surrounding … probability insurance "puzzle" well known from the literature, where a part of individuals pays too much and a part nothing for …

This Review was prepared at the request of the Bulgaria National Bank (BNB). It presents the setting and the … promote corporate governance reforms in individual institutions, thereby enhancing the soundness of a specific bank. The … internationally recognized good practices in bank governance; a set of policy recommendations for the BNB on how to improve upon …

-adjacent markets. The report focuses on one of the main expansion strategies: conglomerate mergers and acquisitions. To this end, it … explores the prevalence of conglomerate mergers, both globally and within the East Asia region, the type of competition …

, with only 19 percent of adults owning a bank account, highlighting a significant underutilized source of financing … underdeveloped capital markets, unregulated Micro Finance Institutions, and an underdeveloped insurance sector. To tackle these …