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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 …
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This Policy Note focuses on distribution channels, the role they play in product diversification and costs, and how regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the capital markets and the MFs have reached certain...
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This note outlines barriers to competition in product markets based primarily on the screening of Serbian regulations using the OECD Product Market Regulation methodology and comparison to regulations in the OECD. The note focuses on topics covered by the 2018 OECD-WBG product market regulation...
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This policy paper explores airline restructuring and regulatory reform challenges and opportunities in the Southern African region with particular focus on Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the air transport sector in the region faced...
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The Philippine Parametric Catastrophe Risk Insurance Program (the 'parametric program') represents a key milestone in … reinsurance market in local currency. In 2018, the GOP purchased a second insurance policy, doubling the amount of coverage. The …. The evaluation is also mean t to build the evidence base on parametric insurance and allow for knowledge sharing with …
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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 …
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One important barrier to insurance markets that are more inclusive is the necessity to better understand the needs of … gap of unmet but insurable risks. The results also show that experience with and knowledge of insurance is very low, but …
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assistance from the World Bank Group (WBG) to conduct a technical and diagnostic review of the Uganda Agricultural Insurance … strengthening the scheme; it also includes a proposal for two additional insurance programs, one for crop and one for livestock … chapter four describes past and present agricultural insurance initiatives, including the UAIS. Section two includes the …
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. 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 …
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The Thai insurance sector is a relatively small but growing part of the country's financial services industry …. Insurance sector assets have grown from 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2006 to over 22 percent of GDP in 2016 … same period. As a result, the insurance penetration ratio (the ratio of premiums written to GDP) has gradually increased …
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