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		<title>CIRM presents the RSBY seminar on September 16th 2010</title>
		<link>http://ifmr.ac.in/cirm/blog/?p=460</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Alliances with Allianz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tirtha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Anthony, Head of Microinsurance, Allianz SE was at IFMR, Chennai as CIRM’s special invitee on July 23, 2010. He is a spokesperson for the Munich based Allianz Group and a member of the Allianz Group’s Sustainability Strategy Team. In this capacity, he organises and chairs the Allianz stakeholder dialogues on some of the Group’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese Sojourn&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tirtha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 8, delegates from the Chinese Meteorological Department and the Guoyuan Agricultural Insurance Company (GAIC) visited CIRM-IFMR. This visit gave us the opportunity to compare the Indian journey of the agriculture insurance industry vis-à-vis the Chinese one.
While, among developing countries, India boasts of the largest  portfolio of WBI products, other developing countries like Ethiopia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark Presentation IITM Research Park &#8211; Catastrophe Floods Meso-Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tilak</dc:creator>
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		<title>The impoverishing effect of healthcare payments in India and the role of health microinsurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akhil Behl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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While the microinsurance sector in India, the global laboratory of microinsurance, seems to be maturing gradually, important players in the sector that are driving this beast need to be more mindful of what it is leaving in its wake and where it is headed. Governments, practitioners and researchers need to take a more informed view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To provide hope for the flood prone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aashim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I grew up knowing my country was drowning” – says Anushay of Bangladesh with a sense of despair.
Bangladesh is one of the world’s worst victims to the negative impacts of anticipated climate change and is possibly most threatened by it. Though the country&#8217;s contribution to the global greenhouse emission is low, floods and other natural disasters are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophe Insurance: Mantra for climate change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tilak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Japan on November 15, 2006, no deaths were recorded. However when an earthquake of magnitude of 7 hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 22, 2570 lives were lost. The irony in these facts is very unfortunate but relevant for us and true.
If we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIRM-Technical Roundtable on Livestock Risk Management, Chennai (February 26, 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has over 100 million households dependent on livestock as a source of livelihoods but with less than 7% of the cattle insured through formal markets; cattle owners have a substantial exposure to this risk. Considering the importance of issue; CIRM hosted a Round-Table on Livestock Risk Management. A range of participants from various sectors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile based enrollments</title>
		<link>http://ifmr.ac.in/cirm/blog/?p=331</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>janani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I visited Biocon Foundation (BF), the CSR unit of Biocon, a research-driven, global healthcare company headquartered in Karnataka. Among the other activities, BF also engages in facilitating the provision of health microinsurance among vulnerable households.
Specifically, they are associated with the Aarogya Raksha Yojana scheme (ARY) since 2005. Each year around 75000 lives have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First National Symposium on National Financial Literacy in Nigeria (February 23, 2010)</title>
		<link>http://ifmr.ac.in/cirm/blog/?p=308</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria has an insurance penetration of about 2%. This is a major cause of concern for their insurance regulators. A survey indicates that 48% of the adult population in Nigeria has never heard of insurance and 17% do not understand anything about insurance products. The situation demands immediate measures on insurance literacy in Nigeria. CIRM [...]]]></description>
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