Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Minimum Monthly Subsistence Level -- 2 Microfinance Usage in Mongolia, 2009 -- 3 Licensed Insurance Industry Participants -- Figures -- 1 Map of Mongolia at Aimag Level -- 2 Map of Mongolia Indicating Microinsurance Market Research and Pilots -- A5.1 Household Income and Expenses -- A5.2 Household Income and Expenses -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Context -- Macroeconomic Trends -- Socioeconomic Trends -- Financial Services -- Technology -- Social Welfare -- Insurance -- Insurance Providers -- Insurance Products -- Distribution and Premium Collection -- Professional Technical Capacity and Training -- Information Technology Systems Constraints -- Existing Microinsurance Landscape -- Overview of Microinsurance Schemes -- Microinsurance Development Projects -- Emerging Lessons from Microinsurance Projects in Mongolia -- Estimating the Potential Demand for Microinsurance -- Microinsurance Client Profile -- Cultural Aspects -- Potential Demand for Microinsurance in Mongolia -- Regulation, Supervision, and Policy -- Political System and Legal Environment -- Financial Sector Authorities -- Insurance Development Policies -- Insurance Laws and Regulations -- Microinsurance Implications -- Supervision and Capacity -- Key Drivers for the Microinsurance Market in Mongolia -- Donor Engagement -- Policy and Regulatory Considerations -- Inhibiting Factors -- Enabling Conditions -- Recommendations -- Moving Forward -- Appendixes -- 1 Financial Regulatory Commission Resolution No. 16 (2009)-Allowable Insurance Categories -- 2 Law on Insurance (2004), Article 8, Insurance Payments -- 3 The Responsible Finance Framework -- 4 The Insurance Core Principles of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (2011).

5 Focus Group Research: Income, Expenditures, and Savings -- 6 United Nations Development Programme Microinsurance Project Demand Study -- 7 The Law Making Process in Mongolia -- 8 Comparative Results from Microinsurance Focus Group Discussions in Swaziland -- 9 Examples of International Responses to Microinsurance Policy, Regulation, and Supervision -- Bibliography.