What Can Super Typhoon Rai Teach Us About Financial Inclusion?

Typhoon Rai made landfall in the Philippines in December 2021, killing over 400 people, devastating 1.5 million homes, and causing over US$1 billion in damage. Extreme weather events like Rai are becoming more common as a result of climate change. Financial services can make households more resilient and adaptive, but too often the people who are most vulnerable to these shocks—such as women, poor people, forcibly displaced people, and people in rural areas—are also financially excluded. In this episode, we travel to the Philippines to speak with a Typhoon Rai survivor and the insurance provider that helped her rebuild her home, as we explore the changing role of insurance and other financial services in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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What Can Super Typhoon Rai Teach Us About Financial Inclusion? is an episode from The CGAP Explainer Podcast by Inclusive Finance Frontiers.

This episode is 00:29:44 long.

This episode was published on Nov 28, 2022.

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