Changing climates: the heat is (still) on
The world is getting warmer and natural hazards are becoming more intense, likely bringing higher economic losses in the future. Today, four major weather perils result in expected economic losses of USD
Insurance
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Innovations in insuring the poor
This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people;
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World Bank launches catastrophe bonds for emerging countries
TE Narasimhan / Chennai November 04, 2009, 0:25 IST The bonds will help economies get cheaper insurance against natural disasters. The World Bank has launched a
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Coastal home owners face huge losses from rising sea
Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home. They bought an old beach shack on Collaroy Beach in 1976 and replaced it with a two storey home anchored to the land by 12 meter (35 feet) long piers, a concrete slab, and an underground seawall of giant boulders.
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Crop & cattle insurance go hi-tech
Iffco Tokio Working On Settling Crop & Cattle Insurance Claims Based On Images & RFID Tags
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Free trade will bind India
30 agreements to be signed; they violate public interest say activists the seventh round of free trade negotiations between India and EU held at Brussels in mid-July ended in a deadlock after the negotiators disagreed on the modalities of the agreement. Fresh talks will be held in November to thresh out details of the free trade agreement (fta) to ease movement of goods and open up
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Insuring against climate
Farmers in the Ethiopian village of Adi Ha have been busy sowing fresh crops of grain in recent weeks, as is customary when their maize crops struggle because of drought. But this year, they have a second backstop against hunger: insurance.
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India Post to focus on rural populace
To tap the growing potential in insurance sector, India Post is now giving much more importance to rural populace. Although India Post has been providing insurance schemes for the rural sector for long, it has now pulled up its socks to achieve significant targets this year.
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An insurance plan for climate change victims
As governments dither over how to protect the world's poor from the effects of a warming planet, an unlikely group is stepping up.
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Crop insurance can boost farm credit
Agriculture or crop insurance, if introduced, will encourage banks to lend more to the farm sector on which the majority of the country's 150 million population depends for their livelihood, according to top bankers.
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Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management
This publication examines the use of index insurance to help reduce vulnerability and poverty and adapt to climate change. Experience in index insurance to-date has been limited to individual case studies, which show promise of lessening the impacts of climate shocks, and enabling investment and growth in the agriculture sector.