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Catastrophe insurance programs can improve disaster aid financing: Think tank

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The Center for Global Development, a U.S.-based nonprofit think tank, has said in a report that catastrophe insurance schemes can improve the financing of disaster aid and cover a range of perils, Artemis.bm reports.

Poorer nations often experience some of the most devastating natural disasters. A catastrophe insurance model for tackling natural disasters and improving resilience would help spread the cost of disasters, thereby "lifting the burden from the poorest people and countries," said the report.

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