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Letter from Sarajevo
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Other Peoples Money
Preventative Medicine for Financial Crises
Ounces of Prevention
Risk, Freedom, and Development

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Occasional Papers (in pdf format)

Number 1
Foreign Insurers in Emerging Markets: Issues and Concerns
By Harold D. Skipper, Jr.

The critical role insurance plays in a country’s economic development is not widely understood. This paper outlines seven ways in which insurance aids economic development. Insurance promotes financial stability, can substitute for government security programs, facilitates trade and commerce, mobilizes national savings, can help manage risk more efficiently, encourages loss mitigation, and fosters a more efficient capital allocation.

Policy makers have expressed numerous reservations about foreign insurer participation in their domestic markets. The study concludes that opening insurance markets to appropriate foreign insurers is likely to aid economic development, enhance overall social welfare, and carry few unresolvable problems.

Number 2
Private Insurance in a Former Planned Economy
By Mark S. Dorfman and Karl C. Ennsfellner

This paper analyzes one aspect of the transformation of the former planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe to market-based economies. Private insurance companies have appeared, but so have new problems for which transition countries are not necessarily prepared. This paper describes the initial development of the insurance market in one transforming economy, Slovenia.



Number 3
Toward Free Trade in Services: The ASEAN Insurance Market
By W. Jean Kwon

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprises Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. These countries have also agreed to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), with the ultimate objective of increasing ASEAN's competitive edge in the world market. A critical step is the liberalization of trade, including trade in services beyond the commitments made under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

This paper investigates where Southeast Asian countries stand when it comes to deregulation and liberalization of the insurance industry.



Number 4
The Insurance Markets of South Asia
By W. Jean Kwon




Number 5
Insurance in Transition Economies: Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary
By Mark S. Dorfman and Karl Ennsfellner




Number 6
The WTO and Insurance in Greater China: The Peoples Republic, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan
By W. Jean Kwon




Number 7
The European Union Integration Process and Insurance Market Development: The Case of the Former Yugoslav Countries
By Safet Kozarevic, Laureen Regan, and Robert Gibbons



Complimentary copies of all Occasional Papers are available for a handling charge of US$10 for single copies and US$15 for multiple copies [Visa and MasterCard accepted]. Please contact the International Insurance Foundation for a copy.



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