World Insurance
The Evolution of a Global Risk Network
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2012
746 pages
978-0-19-163230-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- PART I: EUROPE
- 2. Europe: Overview
- 3. United Kingdom: Pioneering insurance internationally
- 4. Germany: Insurance, expansion, and setbacks
- 5. France: Insurance and the French financial networks
- 6. Switzerland: Insurance and the need to export
- 7. Italy: Building on a long insurance heritage
- 8. Spain: International inflence on the domestic insurance market
- 9. Russia: Early expansion, state involvement, and re-emergence of the insurance industry
- PART II: NORTH AMERICA
- 10. North America: Overview
- 11. Canada: Taking life insurance abroad
- 12. USA: The international attraction of the US insurance market
- PART III: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- 13. Sub-Saharan Africa: Overview
- 14. South Africa: Leading African insurance
- PART IV: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA
- 15. Middle East and Northern Africa: Overview
- 16. Maghreb: Naturalizing insurance in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
- 17. United Arab Emirates: Economic boom and insurance
- PART V: FAR EAST AND PACIFIC
- 18. Far East and Pacific: Overview
- 19. India: From a colonial outpost to a leading market
- 20. China: The indigenization of insurance
- 21. Japan: The role of insurance in the rapid modernization of Japan
- 22. Korea: Insurance in a tiger market
- 23. Australia and New Zealand: A tradition continued-creating a domestic insurance market
- PART VI: LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
- 24. Latin America and Caribbean: Overview
- 25. Brazil: The resilience of the Brazilian insurance market
- 26. Mexico: A history of the insurance industry in Mexico
- 27. Argentina: The changing fortunes of the Argentinian insurance market
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
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