Subsidizing Inclusive Insurance to Reduce Poverty

José Miguel Flores-Contró, Kira Henshaw, Sooie-Hoe Loke, Séverine Arnold and Corina Constantinescu

North American Actuarial Journal, 2025, vol. 29, issue 1, 44-73

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.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2024.2311673

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