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Micro-insurance Conference 2007: Making Insurance Work for the Poor (Session 3)

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Publication date
25/07/2007
Number of Pages
60
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Event Reports
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Climate / Weather / Environment
Type of Risk:
Market-related
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk transfer
Commodity:
Crops
Livestock
Author
Edited by: Zahid Qureshi and Dirk Reinhard
Organization
Munich Re

This report summarizes the conference findings from the 2007 conference, “Making Insurance Work for the Poor”. In this conference, the agenda covered innovative microinsurance products, improving efficiency and enhancing benefits, and a comparison – from the perspective of the poor – of a group of individual insurance. Session 3, on innovative microinsurance products for agriculture with agriculture case studies. This section is of particular use to agricultural risk management as it details a pilot phase and also lessons learnt.

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