The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Nepal
Country Diagnostics Assessment
Asian Development Bank (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2019
84 pages
978-92-9261-713-4 (ISBN)
Description
This country diagnostics assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Nepal, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. The assessment forms one of a series of country diagnostics undertaken using a common methodology to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster risk financing.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables, Figures, and Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Currency Equivalent
- Abbreviations
- Executive Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Risk-Layering Approach
- 1.3 Country Diagnostics Methodology
- 2. Public Sector Disaster Risk Financing
- 2.1 Landscape Overview
- 2.2 Sovereign Disaster Risk and Contingent Liability
- 2.3 Disaster Risk Management in Nepal
- 2.4 Disaster Risk Financing Mechanisms and Instruments
- 2.5 Diagnostic and Recommended Actions
- 3. Diagnostic on Insurance, Reinsurance, and Capital Markets for Disaster Risk Financing
- 3.1 Government Policy Gaps
- 3.2 Credibility of the Private Sector Offering Risk Transfer Solutions
- 3.3 Unlicensed Competition
- 3.4 Product Availability and Affordability
- 3.5 Social Protection
- 4. The Rating Summary and Recommended Main Actions
- 4.1. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Government Policy
- 4.2. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Credibility in the Insurance Sector and the Capital Market
- 4.3. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Social Protection
- 4.4. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Product
- 4.5. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Economic and Other Preconditions
- 4.6. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, Unlicensed Competition
- 4.7. Gaps in, and Recommendations for, the Public Sector
- Appendix: Key Learnings from International Experience in Agriculture Insurance
- References
