Economy, Insure Thyself

Can We Insure against Tsunamis?

We insure the important pieces.

For example, farmers should have the opportunity to insure their crops.

We'd be happy to insure it.

Chile s fiscal institutions insure a countercyclical budget.

They might even choose to self insure the emergency risk for their employees.

41. In 1987, UNICEF established a reserve of 100,000 to self insure for property losses.

The scientists must insure that the ice is not contaminated.

Countries have accumulated large reserves in order to insure against shocks.

62. UNEP will insure the timely publication and distribution of outputs.

Yet, despite these failings, such policies retained enough popularity to insure their continuity.

Unlike banks, though, they do not pay the government to insure their investors.

Condemn these Christians and you make martyrs of them and insure their immortality.

This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis.

Arrangements have been made for companies that insure other United Nations agencies to come to Geneva to make a presentation.

So how do they want to insure that carbon emissions stay under this cap?

Moreover, in this 8,000 mile journey, they have to insure this ice doesn't melt.

But no ocean is large enough to our power to insure and our ambition.

Homeowners can rest assured that they can continue to insure their property at known rates.

In districts where a party is running two candidates, males may be asked to vote for one candidate and females for another to insure even distribution.

The wait to insure option could cause the number of insured individuals to decline rapidly as premiums rise for those who remain insured.

For us, the development of South South cooperation is a bounden duty in order to insure the continuation and strengthening of development assistance.

Their job was to use thousands of billions of dollars to insure loans for people who couldn't get them on the open market.

Anyone contemplating that prospect might choose to forego the wait to insure strategy and enroll immediately.

Many emerging markets preferred to self insure by accumulating reserves rather than borrow from the Fund.

In considering the fiscal implications of Obama s health proposals, it is important that the current legislation would still leave 25 million individuals without insurance. How much would it cost to insure them if the gross cost is now projected at 800 billion for the easier to insure 35 million?

Their efforts to self insure, by, say, building up their foreign exchange reserves, perpetuate global economic imbalances.

A level of the government, no measure was introduced to insure and protect the HIV AIDS workingwoman.

Continuing validation of all observational components is necessary to insure the high quality of the data products.

But a quarter of my brain wonders how investors should attempt to insure against the lowest tail of the economic political distribution, and that quarter of my brain cannot see which way somebody hoping to insure against that risk should jump.

Retired people need life annuities contracts that offer a stable income stream for as long as they live to insure against the risk of outliving their wealth.

Today, however, emerging countries increasingly prefer to self insure by accumulating reserves (and sharing them through regional pooling arrangements).

In this context, it is very important to empower commodity producers in developing countries to insure themselves against risk.

I would bet many more of you insure your iPhone you're implicitly buying insurance by having an extended warranty.

How do we define our status? In what ways do we try to get income and insure our prosperity?

Such bonds would allow countries to insure against a broader set of risks and are likely to be more useful for those developing countries with diversified production and exports.

But the combination of emergency insurance and the wait to insure strategy would still be financially preferable for many individuals, and the number would grow as premiums are driven higher.

Alternatively the creation of regional reserve funds provides a possible complement to multinational and national mechanisms and reduce the need for extra reserve balances to insure against capital account crises.

Asia s leaders must move to better insure their countries against the risk of economic dislocation that comes with de facto regional integration.

b) The inability to ensure the safety of the manufacturing, registration and possession of the arms or failing to insure those requirements.

The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large scale regional or global crises.

The 1999 Florida Watershed Restoration Act directs DEP to check and to make sure, or insure, that these BMP's are, in fact, working.

On December 19, the cost of credit default swaps to insure the debt of Ford was 68 percent the sum insured for five years in addition to annual payments of 5 percent.

I would predict, if you're a representative sample, that many more of you insure your iPhones than your lives, even when you have kids.