🔆 How Cat Bonds Can Tackle Natural Disasters
📍 Catastrophe bonds offer financial protection when traditional insurance fails in disaster-hit regions like South Asia.
✅ What Are Cat Bonds?
• Hybrid insurance-cum-debt products
• Transfer disaster risk from insurers to capital markets
• Investors get high returns but lose capital if a disaster strikes
• Issued by states/sponsors via intermediaries like World Bank/ADB
✅ Why India Needs Them
• Low disaster insurance penetration
• Most Indians uninsured for property or livelihood loss
• India faces high disaster risk—floods, earthquakes, cyclones
• India already allocates $1.8B+ annually to mitigation (since FY22-23)
• Regional Cat Bond (India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) can reduce cost & increase financial readiness
✅ How They Work
• Payout triggered when disaster exceeds a defined threshold
• Example: Earthquake above 6.6 magnitude
• Investors lose principal; funds go to sponsor country
✅ Advantages
• Diversifies financial risk from traditional reinsurance
• Attracts global investors interested in non-correlated risks
• Helpful for extreme climate events like floods, droughts, cyclones
• Improves post-disaster recovery speed
✅ Limitations
• Poorly designed bonds may fail to trigger payout despite severe disaster
• Requires robust data, transparent verification, and payout system
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📍 Catastrophe bonds offer financial protection when traditional insurance fails in disaster-hit regions like South Asia.
✅ What Are Cat Bonds?
• Hybrid insurance-cum-debt products
• Transfer disaster risk from insurers to capital markets
• Investors get high returns but lose capital if a disaster strikes
• Issued by states/sponsors via intermediaries like World Bank/ADB
✅ Why India Needs Them
• Low disaster insurance penetration
• Most Indians uninsured for property or livelihood loss
• India faces high disaster risk—floods, earthquakes, cyclones
• India already allocates $1.8B+ annually to mitigation (since FY22-23)
• Regional Cat Bond (India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) can reduce cost & increase financial readiness
✅ How They Work
• Payout triggered when disaster exceeds a defined threshold
• Example: Earthquake above 6.6 magnitude
• Investors lose principal; funds go to sponsor country
✅ Advantages
• Diversifies financial risk from traditional reinsurance
• Attracts global investors interested in non-correlated risks
• Helpful for extreme climate events like floods, droughts, cyclones
• Improves post-disaster recovery speed
✅ Limitations
• Poorly designed bonds may fail to trigger payout despite severe disaster
• Requires robust data, transparent verification, and payout system
📝 Prelims MCQ
Which of the following best describes catastrophe bonds (cat bonds)?
A) Loans given to disaster-prone countries
B) Sovereign bonds issued for climate mitigation
C) Insurance-based financial instruments to cover disaster risks
D) Bonds linked to carbon credit markets
Answer: C
📝 Mains GS3 Question
Discuss the significance of catastrophe bonds for disaster risk management in South Asia. Can India take the lead in building a regional cat bond market?
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🔆INDUSTRY: organisation involved in production & supply of goods & services.
Classifies as Primary, secondary, tertiary.
✅Primary sector: goods produced using natural resources.
🔸Acts as base of all other sectors.
Ex. Agriculture, Dairy etc.
✅ Secondary Sector: Natural produced turned into other forms by manufacturing Also called as Industrial sector
Ex. Making sugar from sugarcane
✅ Tertiary sector: Does not produce any goods & services.
🔸Provide services to other sectors.
Ex. Banking, transportation etc.
Factors affecting location for Industries:
✅ Availability of raw material
✅ Nature of industry
✅ Transportation facility
✅ Skilled and cheap labour availability
✅ Capital, entrepreneurship
✅ Electricity & fuel availability
✅ Market
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Classifies as Primary, secondary, tertiary.
✅Primary sector: goods produced using natural resources.
🔸Acts as base of all other sectors.
Ex. Agriculture, Dairy etc.
✅ Secondary Sector: Natural produced turned into other forms by manufacturing Also called as Industrial sector
Ex. Making sugar from sugarcane
✅ Tertiary sector: Does not produce any goods & services.
🔸Provide services to other sectors.
Ex. Banking, transportation etc.
Factors affecting location for Industries:
✅ Availability of raw material
✅ Nature of industry
✅ Transportation facility
✅ Skilled and cheap labour availability
✅ Capital, entrepreneurship
✅ Electricity & fuel availability
✅ Market
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🔆Trinidad and Tobago
✅Location: Trinidad and Tobago is situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northern edge of the South American mainland, just off the coast of Venezuela.
✅It is part of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, geographically positioned between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
✅The islands lie close to the continent of South America, separated by the Gulf of Paria.
✅Physical Features: Trinidad, the larger of the two islands, is mostly flat with some low mountain ranges and fertile plains.
✅Tobago, the smaller island, is more rugged and mountainous.
The region lies close to the Orinoco River Delta and experiences tropical maritime climate.
✅Capital: Port of Spain
✅Demographic Aspects: Over 35% of the population is of Indian descent, largely tracing their roots to indentured labourers brought from India during British colonial rule.
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✅Location: Trinidad and Tobago is situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northern edge of the South American mainland, just off the coast of Venezuela.
✅It is part of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, geographically positioned between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
✅The islands lie close to the continent of South America, separated by the Gulf of Paria.
✅Physical Features: Trinidad, the larger of the two islands, is mostly flat with some low mountain ranges and fertile plains.
✅Tobago, the smaller island, is more rugged and mountainous.
The region lies close to the Orinoco River Delta and experiences tropical maritime climate.
✅Capital: Port of Spain
✅Demographic Aspects: Over 35% of the population is of Indian descent, largely tracing their roots to indentured labourers brought from India during British colonial rule.
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Practice from Day 1.
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