Bancassurance is the process of using a bank's customer relationships to sell life and non-life insurance products. In some developed countries it has had a dramatic impact on developing sales volumes, attaining market shares in excess of 50 percent in life and more than 10 percent in non-life....

This technical assistance project was designed to familiarize policy makers in the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with credit enhancement products (CEPs), including guarantees, available from ADB, export credit agencies, other multilateral development banks, and...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) works with a number of developing member countries facing fragile and conflict-affected situations—circumstances that complicate economic development, and might include domestic or international conflict, ethnic tensions, vulnerability to natural disasters, or...

As an extension of the VaR-constrained hedging, we propose a closed-form solution to the problem of optimizing portfolios, based on price and weather. For electric power companies, price and quantity are volatile, and in hydro-electricity generation quantity can be related to weather conditions....

Through the survey of 3 different grassland migrant villages in S Banner, the author studied the influence of ecological migration policies on migrants, and analyzed livelihood selection and adaptation of migrants in the new environment. Finally, the author put forward corresponding...