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  • Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) (English)

    Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) is an innovative IFC-led, funded by EC program, that is expanding access to insurance for natural disasters and weather risks in developing countries.

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193119 Document Date: August 16, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Developing Local Financial Markets (English)

    Insurance providers in developing regions rarely offer the hazard insurance familiar to industrialized countries. Developing countries are particularly exposed to weather and catastrophic (CAT) risks such...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 193005 Document Date: August 13, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Zambia - Partner focus (English)

    Zambia continued to face slower growth in 2016. Tough global conditions have combined with domestic challenges including power outages and tight liquidity. The forthcoming National development plan should...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113757 Document Date: January 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Partner focus : Sri Lanka (English)

    This brief talks about the weather-related index insurance market in Sri Lanka. Thirty-two percent of Sri Lanka’s labor force is in the agricultural sector, and it accounts for 10 percent of Gross domestic...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113755 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Microinsurance catastrophe risk organisation (MICRO) : Haiti (English)

    This brief talks about the natural catastrophe and weather index insurance in Haiti. Haiti is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world with earthquakes, hurricanes and flashfloods. MiCRO is...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113744 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Sanasa insurance : Sri Lanka (English)

    This brief talks about Sanasa agriculture insurance in Sri Lanka. Historically, agriculture has always been a key economic activity in Sri Lanka, employing over 30 percent of the labor force. As Sri Lanka...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113747 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Microensure : Rwanda (English)

    This brief talks about weather index insurance in Rwanda. Agriculture in Rwanda accounts for one-third of Rwanda’s Gross domestic product (GDP) and constitutes the main economic activity for rural households...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113745 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Mozambique - Partner focus (English)

    In Mozambique, agriculture accounts for approximately 32 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and involves over 81 percent of the population. Yet, only a fraction of Mozambique’s potentially arable...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113738 Document Date: December 7, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • How to measure whether index insurance provides reliable protection (English)

    Agricultural index insurance offers the promise of an affordable and sustainable insurance product for farmers that can help reduce their vulnerability to aggregate agricultural shocks such as large-scale...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7744 Document Date: July 18, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morsink,Karlijn,Clarke,Daniel Jonathan,Mapfumo,Shadreck

  • Weather index insurance and shock coping : evidence from Mexico's CADENA Program (English)

    Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7715 Document Date: June 21, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Janvry,Alain F.,Ramirez Ritchie,Elizabeth Andrea,Sadoulet,Elisabeth Marie L.

  • Handling the weather : insurance, savings, and credit in West Africa (English)

    Farmers in developing countries face a wide array of risks. Yet they often lack formal financial instruments to protect against risks. This paper examines the impact on consumption, investment, and welfare...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7187 Document Date: February 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Nicola,Francesca