Keith Mitchell on Catastrophe Risk Insurance: Time is Not on Our Hands
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Show Notes
In September 2017, the Caribbean was hit by the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Irma's 185 mile per hour winds left several countries devastated. During a seminar on sovereign debt at the IMF World-Bank Annual meetings, Grenada's Prime Minister and chair of CARICOM, Keith Mitchell, said catastrophe risk insurance could help vulnerable countries mitigate some of the risk from increasingly severe weather patterns.
Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada and chair of the Caribbean Community CARICOM