Articles - Building Sovereign Disaster Resilience


Gerry Lemcke and Marina Oberholzer explore how innovative risk-transfer solutions can strengthen countries’ financial resilience to natural disasters. Lemcke and Oberholzer trace the evolution of Public Sector Solutions back to 2011, when Swiss Re became the first reinsurer to establish a dedicated unit to work with governments on their risk-mitigation and risk-transfer needs. Now, the toolbox to address these needs is expanding: Lemcke and Oberholzer discuss insurance-linked loans, which embed disaster protection into sovereign financing. When a qualifying disaster strikes, an insurer takes over the loan payments, providing real debt relief and freeing up public funds to be used for recovery instead.

 

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