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  "title": "Property Insurance Challenges in the ECCU: ECCU",
  "publication": "Selected Issues Papers, May 30, 2025",
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  "summary": "Property insurance affordability presents a growing challenge for the ECCU. With a high reliance on global reinsurance to manage risks in high-exposure products like property, the recent tightening of global reinsurance market conditions has largely passed through to local premiums and constrained c",
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      "heading": "Overview and Key Findings",
      "content": "- Property insurance affordability is a growing challenge for the ECCU.\n- The region has a high reliance on global reinsurance to manage risks in high-exposure products like property.\n- Recent tightening of global reinsurance market conditions has largely passed through to local premiums and has constrained capacity to extend coverage.\n- Rising costs exacerbate acute non- and under-insurance challenges in the region."
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      "heading": "Risks and Macroeconomic Implications",
      "content": "- Elevated premiums and constrained coverage can worsen economic and fiscal impacts of natural disasters.\n- Further exacerbation of protection gaps could raise broader macro-financial stability risks by weakening:\n  - asset quality\n  - credit conditions"
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      "heading": "Recommended Readiness and Policy Actions",
      "content": "- Strengthen insurance data collection.\n- Enhance risk analysis capabilities.\n- Bolster regional supervision.\n- Use improved data, analysis, and supervision to:\n  - inform appropriate design and calibration of policies to help close protection gaps,\n  - contain future market pressures,\n  - mitigate broader financial system risks."
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      "content": "- Subject: Financial institutions, Insurance, Insurance companies\n- Keywords: Caribbean, challenges in the region, ECCU, Financial Supervision, Global, Insurance, Insurance companies, insurance data collection, Insurance Premium, market condition, Property Insurance, risk analysis\n\nSource: Property Insurance Challenges in the ECCU: ECCU, Janne A Hukka and Jonas Nauerz, May 30, 2025.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Property Insurance Challenges in the ECCU\n  - Property Insurance Challenges in the ECCU (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Property Insurance Challenges in the ECCU (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/selected-issues-papers/issues/2025/05/29/property-insurance-challenges-in-the-eccu-eccu-567315"
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    "Authors: Janne A Hukka, Jonas Nauerz",
    "Published: May 30, 2025",
    "Series: Selected Issues Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229012775.018",
    "Property insurance affordability is a growing challenge for the ECCU.",
    "The region has a high reliance on global reinsurance to manage risks in high-exposure products like property.",
    "Recent tightening of global reinsurance market conditions has largely passed through to local premiums and has constrained capacity to extend coverage.",
    "Rising costs exacerbate acute non- and under-insurance challenges in the region.",
    "Elevated premiums and constrained coverage can worsen economic and fiscal impacts of natural disasters.",
    "Further exacerbation of protection gaps could raise broader macro-financial stability risks by weakening:",
    "Strengthen insurance data collection.",
    "Enhance risk analysis capabilities.",
    "Bolster regional supervision.",
    "Use improved data, analysis, and supervision to:",
    "Subject: Financial institutions, Insurance, Insurance companies",
    "Keywords: Caribbean, challenges in the region, ECCU, Financial Supervision, Global, Insurance, Insurance companies, insurance data collection, Insurance Premium, market condition, Property Insurance, risk analysis",
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