How to Insure Essential Yet Informal Workers During the Pandemic
Innovative strategies are needed to provide social protections and insurance cover to daily wage earners, contract workers and others in the informal economy.
Arup Kumar Chatterjee
Principal Financial Sector Specialist, ADB Finance Sector Office, Sectors Department
Arup Chatterjee is Principal Financial Sector Specialist at the Asian Development Bank responsible for leading financial sector development initiatives and providing operational support in financial sector reform and development, regulatory and supervisory oversight architecture, insurance, pensions, financial inclusion, and Fintech. In addition, he has advised on disaster risk financing, agriculture insurance, health insurance, pensions and social security reforms, SME financing, and Takaful in Asian, African, and Latin American countries.
In his over three and half decades of work, he has traversed across insurance and reinsurance operations, financial sector policymaking, and regulations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
He has earlier served with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, and the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
Connect with Arup via Twitter @chatarup
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Strings Attached: Financial Education is Needed to Judge Pandemic Assistance
Households and small businesses are being offered a dizzying array of financial assistance packages to survive COVID-19, but many lack the financial skills to judge if they are right for them.
How Businesses Can Stay Alive When Struck by Disaster
Business interruption insurance is an essential tool for business continuity. How small and medium-sized enterprises handle post-disaster disruption could be the difference between reopening their doors or closing them for good.
Financing Disaster Relief Through Taxation
As disasters become more frequent and intense in Asia-Pacific, governments can tap into taxes to finance improved resilience.
Crop Insurance Lessons from My Field Trip to Rajshahi
Crop insurance is a valuable climate adaptation tool for disaster-prone countries like Bangladesh.
How Fintech is Transforming Access to Finance for MSMEs
Emerging fintech players are reshaping the ways small businesses can access working capital and cash flow finance.
How Fintech Can Accelerate Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
For the country to take full advantage of financial technology, 3 significant steps need to be taken.
How Blockchain Can Rebuild Consumer Trust in Insurance
Blockchain can provide a secure, transparent, and verifiable mechanism to establish provable good faith in insurance transactions.
Preparing the Foundations for Fintech to Blossom
Fintech can unleash a new era of innovation, competition, and job-creating productivity. But it will take more than buzzwords to generate meaningful growth.