TY - BOOK ID - 47733997 TI - Earthquake insurance in Turkey : history of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool PY - 2006 SN - 0821365835 0821365843 9780821365830 9786610765768 1280765763 1429458356 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Social policy KW - Insurance KW - Geophysics KW - Turkey KW - Earthquake insurance KW - Insurance pools KW - Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool. KW - Insurance purchasing alliances KW - Insurance purchasing cooperatives KW - Insurance purchasing pools KW - Insurance syndicates KW - Pools, Insurance KW - Syndicates (Finance) KW - Insurance, Earthquake KW - TCIP UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47733997 AB - The persistent potential for large scale natural disasters has become a real concern for the Turkish government since the late 1990's, which ultimately led to the establishment of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP). Among the main rationale of the creation of the TCIP were a grave government fiscal exposure to natural disasters and a disproportionately low level of catastrophe insurance penetration for such a disaster-prone country. Since the commencement of this program in 2000, the TCIP has provided coverage to more than 2 million households, being by far the largest insurance program ER -