Resumen

Contents

Climate, poverty and index insurance

• Climate and poverty
• Climate risk management
• A brief introduction to index insurance
• Index insurance for development
• Index insurance for disaster management
• Climate change and index insurance
• Next steps – this publication

Case studies I

• Unlocking development potential in Malawi
• Disaster insurance in Ethiopia

Scaling up index insurance: The contract

• Scaling up in context
• Identifying and quantifying the risk
• Measuring index parameters
• Establishing probabilities
• Estimating the price
• Understanding impacts
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Case studies II

• National-level drought risk management in Malawi
• A farmer-centric approach in Ethiopia
• Insurance for contract farming in India
• Disaster relief in Mexico
• Catastrophe risk insurance in the Caribbean
• Insuring development goals in the Millennium Villages Project
• Vietnam: Flood insurance in the Mekong Delta

Scaling up index insurance: Operational issues

• Demand for the product
• Local ownership and capacity
• Legal and regulatory issues
• The challenge of subsidies
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Case studies III

• Central America – a different approach for launching index insurance
• Barriers to implementation in the Ukraine
• The private sector builds a market in India
• Laying the foundations for farm-level insurance in Ethiopia
• Supporting farmers – and a government seed program – in Brazil
• Stakeholder communication is key in Thailand
• Scaling up in India: The public sector
• Livestock insurance in Mongolia

Lessons learned and recommendations

• What is the potential of index insurance for development and disaster management?
• Lessons learned and recommendations

Global initiatives on financial risk transfer