insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …

This paper documents the practical experience of deploying index insurance in a tropical country whose agriculture is … dependent on dual sources of water: rainfall and irrigation. The paper introduces an innovative hybrid index insurance product … Index Insurance Facility. The findings indicate that the new hybrid product performs better than the single trigger …

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 technical note covers the insurance sector supervised by the CBR. The analysis was carried out as part of the 2016 … during the mission. The assessment has been supported by discussions with the CBR and the insurance market participants. the … Russian insurance industry ranked 27th in the world. Non-life insurance premium accounted for 89 percent of GPW while life …

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 …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

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 …

. Insurance development is driven by a large range of factors, some of which can be better observed than others. Data is important … and potential demand for insurance are also considered considering the nature and level of risk being faced as the basis … for the examination of insurance markets effectively assuming individuals and entities should and will take out insurance …