The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships in Agricultural Insurance in China: based on Analysis for Beijing

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第一作者： Xing, Li

作者： Xing, Li;Lu, Kaiyu

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关键词： Policy-driven agricultural insurance scheme;Non-parametric information-diffusion model;Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs);Beijing Municipality

期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL RISK AND FOOD SECURITY 2010

ISSN： 2210-7843

年卷期： 2010 年 1 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： To establish a healthy and sustainable policy-driven agricultural insurance scheme, a discussion of the importance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is timely in light of the challenges that governments are facing against the backdrop of increasing scale and frequency of major agro-related natural disasters across the globe. Most recently in 2008, it is reported a total of 137 natural catastrophes led to overall economic losses of USD258 billion in the world. Moreover, as complexity and costs escalate, neither group - public nor private - can meet the challenge alone. This is particularly true for agricultural industry and rural areas in emerging economies that lack sufficient funds to deal with the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters. Public private partnerships (PPPs), especially those involving reinsurance and capital market solutions, can improve risk management and prepare stakeholders for the consequences of uncertainties. A recent example is the agricultural reinsurance contract signed by the Beijing Municipal Government and Swiss Re. In 2007, Beijing imposed a new agricultural insurance policy for local farmers to promote the development of urban agriculture. Under the new policy, the Beijing municipal and district governments subsidized farmers up to 75% who buy agricultural insurances for certain crops/livestock, and 50% of management costs of the participating insurers are shouldered by governments. The municipal government also set up a protection funds for agro-related natural catastrophe events and regulated the loss ratio of 160% as an attachment point to start up the fund. In this paper, we apply the non-parameter information-diffusion model to stimulate possibility of different loss incurred in Beijing using time-series combined loss ratio data of historical agricultural insurance business. The results show that the current attachment point of protection fund, 160%, will impose additional financial burden to local government comparing to higher or lower points. It proves the necessity for government introducing reinsurance in the system to diversify risks and improve efficiency simultaneously. The paper also outlines the overall framework of Beijing agricultural insurance scheme for each stakeholder including direct insurers and reinsurers. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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