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Parametric Insurance: General Market Trends and Perspectives for the African Insurance Sector

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Publication date
18/06/2010
Number of Pages
8
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Articles & Journals
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Climate / Weather / Environment
Type of Risk:
Weather & Climate related
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk transfer
Commodity:
Crops
Livestock
Author
Hector Ibarra
Organization
PartnerRe New Solutions Inc

Within the international reinsurance market, PartnerRe has pioneered initiatives to engage in local market development efforts with financial institutions in developing countries for implementing parametric weather and parametric catastrophe products. PartnerRe has supported the design and implementation of programmes in developing countries at both macro and micro levels.

Based on Partner Re’s experience, this article aims to provide an overview of the current market development efforts and to set out what are considered to be the key constraints that impede the sustainable development of private parametric insurance markets in developing countries. The article recommends an approach that facilitates the participation of local financial institutions in the development of sustainable risk transfer markets.