Does Insurance Help to Escape the Poverty Trap?–A Ruin Theoretic Approach

Does Insurance Help to Escape the Poverty Trap?–A Ruin Theoretic Approach

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Article ID: iaor201112137
Volume: 78
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 1003
End Page Number: 1028
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Journal: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Authors: ,
Keywords: insurance, poverty
Abstract:

Poverty trapping refers to the fact that poor people in developing countries cannot escape their poverty without help from outside. This is worsened by extreme events, for example, floods or hurricanes, sending people to poverty who have not been poor before. Often, insurance is seen as a way out. This article studies poverty trapping in the context of catastrophic risk and introduces a ruin‐type model, combining deterministic growth with a stochastic loss model. We analyze the properties of the resulting piecewise deterministic Markov process, especially its trapping risk, and discuss for which groups of people insurance can reduce trapping probability.

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