Add to ORKGDespite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmers and pastoralists have met with sometimes indifferent demand and low uptake by the intended beneficiaries. Yet the evidence that risk plays an important role in creating and perpetuating rural poverty is mounting and demands further efforts to solve this problem. This brief focuses on ways to solve this demand problem by designing index insurance contracts more intelligently.PRIFPRI1; GRP4; 2020MTI
This paper highlights the importance of public data for the development of more efficient and sustai...
Risk is a pervasive feature of life in poor rural areas of developing countries. This brief outlines...
Production risk is pervasive in agriculture, yet smallholder farmers lack access to quality insuranc...
Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to ...
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it me...
This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances o...
Innovations in Insuring the Poor: Overview, by Ruth Vargas Hilland Maximo Torero; Risk, Poverty, and...
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in...
Over the last ten years there has been a renewed interest in providing agricultural insurance in dev...
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to ...
Almost universally, implementers of index insurance for low income households have chosen to embed ...
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their live...
Index insurance is often promoted as a solution to many of the barriers that are thought to limit th...
In 2002 a group of insurance and reinsurance professionals set out to demonstrate that the low-incom...
A farm, whether large or small, can be a risky business. Farmers face price, yield, and resource ris...
This paper highlights the importance of public data for the development of more efficient and sustai...
Risk is a pervasive feature of life in poor rural areas of developing countries. This brief outlines...
Production risk is pervasive in agriculture, yet smallholder farmers lack access to quality insuranc...
Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to ...
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it me...
This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances o...
Innovations in Insuring the Poor: Overview, by Ruth Vargas Hilland Maximo Torero; Risk, Poverty, and...
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in...
Over the last ten years there has been a renewed interest in providing agricultural insurance in dev...
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to ...
Almost universally, implementers of index insurance for low income households have chosen to embed ...
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their live...
Index insurance is often promoted as a solution to many of the barriers that are thought to limit th...
In 2002 a group of insurance and reinsurance professionals set out to demonstrate that the low-incom...
A farm, whether large or small, can be a risky business. Farmers face price, yield, and resource ris...
This paper highlights the importance of public data for the development of more efficient and sustai...
Risk is a pervasive feature of life in poor rural areas of developing countries. This brief outlines...
Production risk is pervasive in agriculture, yet smallholder farmers lack access to quality insuranc...