Pira eyes weather-based insurance for farmers

COMMERCIAL non-life insurers belonging to the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association or Pira have agreed to craft an insurance product that departs radically from traditional indemnity-based insurance now in the market. 
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Incentives seen needed to boost microinsurance

THE HEAD of the Senate committee in charge of banking and finance laws asked the Insurance Commission (IC) on Friday to study what incentives are needed to persuade more insurers to offer financial protection products for the poor.

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Department of Finance and IC holds microinsurance advocacy training

TUGUEGARAO CITY, May 28 (PIA) -- The Insurance Commission (IC) and the Department of Finance-National Credit Council (DoF-NNC) held a three-day training on Microinsurance Advocacy, on May 22 to 24 in Holiday Plaza Hotel here. 

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TOMA in Tuguegarao City

Photos taken during the conduct of the Microinsurance Financial Literacy Training and Seminar at the Holiday Plaza Hotel, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan from May 22 to 25, 2012.
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DOF to conduct microinsurance training in Cagayan

TUGUEGARAO CITY, May 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Finance is set to conduct an advocacy seminar on microinsurance to provide appropriate risk protection to the informal and low-income sectors on May 24 and 25 at Holiday Plaza Hotel here.
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TOMA in Zamboanga City, May 8-11, 2012

Photos taken during the Microinsurance Financial Literacy Roadshow held at the Garden Orchid Hotel, Zamboanga City from May 8 to 11, 2012.
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Insurance the micro way

Much of the world's population has now moved out of extreme poverty and into the lower middle class. Francesca Nyman examines whether there is a market for micro-insurance in this demographic.

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