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Universal Coverage:Rebuilding India’s Health Insurance Architecture
Health insurance sector itself is facing headwinds with 12-15%...
Life Insurance:Driving Product Innovation and Long-Term Sustainability
Along with changing customer needs, expanded datasets and...
Climate Change: Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide
In a new report linking rainfall deficits to higher farmer suicide rates in India's drought-prone states, researchers said climate change was making "agriculture an extremely risky, potentially dangerous and loss-making endeavour" By Roli Srivastava and Bhasker...
Demographic Dividend: India races to get rich before it gets old as population surpasses China’s
Health care is just one illustrative pressure point. Today, India has about five hospital beds per 10,000 people. The ratio in China is about eight times that, and analysts say India will take decades just to reach the level where China currently stands A fleeting...
Health for all: WHO calls for urgent efforts to bridge gaps accentuated by Covid
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh,Regional Director for South-East Asia,WHO ''In 2017, around 299 million people in the South-East Asia region faced catastrophic health spending, and an estimated 117 million people in the region were pushed or further pushed below the...
Inclusion, diversity top driver of benefit strategies offered by companies: Survey
The survey further revealed that an increasing number of companies are now moving towards offering programmes under lifestyle risk management and target specific conditions. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes are the major social wellbeing initiatives...
Women having their own source of income are more likely to own insurance:ICICI Lombard Report
Sanjeev Mantri, executive director, ICICI Lombard General Insurance said, “As data shows only a small percentage of women in India consider general insurance a priority. This highlights the need for more awareness and education on general insurance among women in...
Gigs, scams, ghost work: India tech sector’s dark side
In his job, Saurav - who asked to go by one name to protect his identity - called people in the United States, enticed them to sign up for loans and insurance policies, then told them they needed to improve their credit score by paying $50-$100. Only, he did not work...
Rural households prefer savings instruments over term insurance plans: Max Life Survey
Saving for children’s education and marriage emerged as top savings objectives, multiple anxieties around savings and expenditures for the future abound The low uptake of life insurance products in rural Indian can be primarily attributed to inadequate funds to buy...
Indian Gig Economy: Ensuring a better work environment for millions of workers
India is likely to see its gig workforce add 9-11 million jobs by 2025, which has been one of the most pivotal economic shifts in a long time When it comes to fair work for gig workers among the digital platform economy in India, Zomato, Swiggy, and quick-grocery...
Flood Risk: shifting from a responsive to an anticipatory approach
Only 17% of global losses were insured between 2007 and 2021, with the biggest protection gaps in developing countries, where insurance is often not available. Flood risk is pervasive and set to increase. According to Marsh McLennan estimates, 1 out of 3 people...
Transforming Life: Tapping the new Normal
MR Kumar, Chiarman, Life Insurance Corporation The Indian life insurance industry needs to gear up for the coming prosperity and be ready with its products, distribution channels and processes to meet the demands of the new normal The entire life insurance sector has...