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For example, Microensure and Bima have made insurance solutions available to millions of people; but their services ultimately depend on independent insurers to allocate capital and underwrite insurance policies.
Many of those who were insured discovered that clauses in their policies barred them from collecting full benefits.
In some cases, insurance companies argued that houses were damaged by flood, not wind, which their policies cover more generously.
Insurance policies that clearly specify the amounts that will be paid and the types of damage that will be covered are far better than the government-administered, after-the-fact bailout that many people seem to have expected.
The bonds can be sold to a worldwide market by insurance companies that incur major risks by writing policies.
If the insurance companies can get a good enough price for such bonds, they can eliminate their exposure to the risk of a major disaster, thereby allowing them to issue policies to homeowners at a lower cost.
But the EU’s problem with both Turkey and Russia is about more than difficult personalities or inadequate policies; it is rooted in the European order itself.
The greatest blot on her record may be the austerity policies that her government promoted in the European Union after the global financial crisis.
Those policies increased inequality, deepened the divide between northern and southern member states, and slowed economic recovery.
When they go to the polls in November, they must consider the candidates’ policies toward climate change.
This would limit the disruptions to decision-making, personnel, and legislation that seem to occur every few months, thereby allowing important policies to be implemented efficiently.
The IMF versus the World BankCAMBRIDGE: The IMF’s search for a new managing director will be attracting all the attention over the coming weeks and months, but the policies it follows are what matter most.
Are IMF policies too tough, even perverse, pushing economies into bankruptcy?
That latter view was promoted across Asia, where governments, including that of Japan, called for an Asian IMF with alternative (softer) policies.
They gained extraordinary and unexpected support from Joseph Stiglitz, the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice president, who recently advised that China should practice competitive devaluation and beggar-thy neighbor policies.
Why?IMF policies worked.
Until recently, most East Asian countries pursued non-discriminatory trade policies through unilateral liberalisation, the Asian/Pacific Economic Community, and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
East Asian countries have relatively liberal trade policies and are reasonably well integrated into the global economy.
The city states, Hong Kong and Singapore, have clear-sighted WTO policies, focusing on market access and strong rules.
Factors like these explain why international climate policies increasingly focus not only on solar power, but on other forms of renewable energy as well.
Only better-informed foreign policies that can address the genuine anxieties of civilizations in crisis will yield more sustainable results.
Credit policies have helped to juice the economy from time to time, but the authorities have also retained the ability to slow things down when warranted.
The Chinese authorities should take another look at their policies.
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is also the result of their policies.
Of course, Reagan and Thatcher have always had their critics, some of whom now believe that the world economy will revert to pre-Reagan and pre-Thatcher policies.
Inflation came down rapidly, from more than 10% in 1981 to less than 4% in 1983, because Reagan backed the tough monetary policies of US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Reagan’s tax policies reduced the top income-tax rate from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1986.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and of communism were, in part, dramatic responses to US policies and to the inability of the Soviet economy to keep up with the West.
Policies do evolve as conditions change and as we learn from experience.
By contrast, countries in Central and Eastern Europe had development policies thrust upon them by the European Union – a dynamic that has contributed significantly to the rise of anti-establishment political forces.
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