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Building risk resilience in Asia and the Pacific

Building risk resilience in Asia and the Pacific

Update: 2024-11-29

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Estimates suggest that only 15% of Asian assets have appropriate coverage for disaster risks. How can these “protection gaps” be filled? Yoshihiro Kawai, Chair of Global Asia Insurance Partnership and Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean of ADBI discuss the issue and how a new joint project aims to increase risk resilience.

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Building risk resilience in Asia and the Pacific

Building risk resilience in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank Institute