Subsidizing Inclusive Insurance to Reduce Poverty


Flores-Contro, Jose Miguel, Henshaw, Kira, Loke, Sooie-Hoe, Arnold, Severine and Constantinescu, Corina ORCID: 0000-0002-5219-3022 (2025) Subsidizing Inclusive Insurance to Reduce Poverty NORTH AMERICAN ACTUARIAL JOURNAL, 29 (1). pp. 44-73. ISSN 1092-0277, 2325-0453

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Abstract

In this article, we assess the benefits of coordination and partnerships between governments and private insurers and provide further evidence for microinsurance products as powerful and cost-effective tools for achieving poverty reduction. To explore these ideas, we model the capital of a household from a ruin-theoretic perspective to measure the impact of microinsurance on poverty dynamics and the governmental cost of social protection. We analyze the model under four frameworks: uninsured, insured (without subsidies), insured with subsidized constant premiums, and insured with subsidized flexible premiums. Although insurance alone (without subsidies) may not be sufficient to reduce the likelihood of falling into the area of poverty for specific groups of households, because premium payments constrain their capital growth, our analysis suggests that subsidized schemes can provide maximum social benefits while reducing governmental costs.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 4901 Applied Mathematics, 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 49 Mathematical Sciences, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 1 No Poverty
Divisions: Faculty of Science & Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2024 12:30
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 20:17
DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2024.2311673
Open Access URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10920...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3185092
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