Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa

The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF) has supported national insurance supervision agen...

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Main Authors: Assah, Fatou C., Sberro-Kessler, Rachel
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375211490786411391/Data-for-index-insurance
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spelling okr-10986-263392021-05-25T10:54:44Z Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa Assah, Fatou C. Sberro-Kessler, Rachel MICROFINANCE INSURANCE INDEX INSURANCE MICROINSURANCE The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF) has supported national insurance supervision agencies with this transition. In particular, GIIF has assisted the Senegalese Insurance Supervision Agency with the development of supervisory and customer protection tools for index-insurance. This regulatory change has allowed the development of index-insurance pilots in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. Today, the CIMA region has a population of more than 145 million people, 58 percent of them living under 2 million dollars a day and most of them depending on agriculture for their livelihoods (contributing to an average of 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). 2017-04-12T17:50:02Z 2017-04-12T17:50:02Z 2017 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375211490786411391/Data-for-index-insurance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26339 English en_US Global Index Insurance Facility Knowledge Notes; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Benin Burkina Faso Mali Senegal
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topic MICROFINANCE
INSURANCE
INDEX INSURANCE
MICROINSURANCE
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INSURANCE
INDEX INSURANCE
MICROINSURANCE
Assah, Fatou C.
Sberro-Kessler, Rachel
Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
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Burkina Faso
Mali
Senegal
relation Global Index Insurance Facility Knowledge Notes;
description The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF) has supported national insurance supervision agencies with this transition. In particular, GIIF has assisted the Senegalese Insurance Supervision Agency with the development of supervisory and customer protection tools for index-insurance. This regulatory change has allowed the development of index-insurance pilots in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. Today, the CIMA region has a population of more than 145 million people, 58 percent of them living under 2 million dollars a day and most of them depending on agriculture for their livelihoods (contributing to an average of 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
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author Assah, Fatou C.
Sberro-Kessler, Rachel
author_facet Assah, Fatou C.
Sberro-Kessler, Rachel
author_sort Assah, Fatou C.
title Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
title_short Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
title_full Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
title_fullStr Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
title_full_unstemmed Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa
title_sort supporting effective regulation and supervision of index-insurance in francophone africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375211490786411391/Data-for-index-insurance
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