Innovations in Insuring the Poor: Overview, by Ruth Vargas Hilland Maximo Torero; Risk, Poverty, and Insurance, by Stefan Dercon; Microinsurance for Health and Agricultural Risks, by Richard Leftley; Sustainability and Scalability of Index-Based Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods, by Ulrich Hess and Peter Hazell; Intelligent Design of Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists, by Michael R. Carter; Experience with Weather Index-based Insurance in India and Malawi, by Xavier Gine; Providing Weather Index and Indemnity Insurance in Ethiopia, by Eyob Meherette; Index-based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia, by Oliver Mahul, Nathan Belete, and Andrew Goodland; Health Insurance for the Rural Poor: Evidence from Cambodia...
Agriculture in Ethiopia is almost entirely rainfed and highly prone to droughts and floods. Given th...
The Mongolian rural economy is based on livestock reared by semi-nomadic herders. Agriculture contri...
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to ...
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it me...
Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to ...
Despite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmer...
In 2002 a group of insurance and reinsurance professionals set out to demonstrate that the low-incom...
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their live...
This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances o...
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in...
Risk is pervasive in developing countries. The standard household risks of sickness, mortality, fire...
Uninsured risk has substantial welfare costs, not just in the short run, but also in terms of perpet...
The provision of insurance for the poor, covering a variety of risks, could well be a key milestone...
Eighteen papers, one previously published, others presented at a UNU-WIDER conference in June 2001 i...
Risk is a pervasive feature of life in poor rural areas of developing countries. This brief outlines...
Agriculture in Ethiopia is almost entirely rainfed and highly prone to droughts and floods. Given th...
The Mongolian rural economy is based on livestock reared by semi-nomadic herders. Agriculture contri...
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to ...
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it me...
Farmers face a variety of market and production risks that make their incomes volatile from year to ...
Despite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmer...
In 2002 a group of insurance and reinsurance professionals set out to demonstrate that the low-incom...
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their live...
This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances o...
Index-based insurance is an innovative financial product that has been introduced in recent years in...
Risk is pervasive in developing countries. The standard household risks of sickness, mortality, fire...
Uninsured risk has substantial welfare costs, not just in the short run, but also in terms of perpet...
The provision of insurance for the poor, covering a variety of risks, could well be a key milestone...
Eighteen papers, one previously published, others presented at a UNU-WIDER conference in June 2001 i...
Risk is a pervasive feature of life in poor rural areas of developing countries. This brief outlines...
Agriculture in Ethiopia is almost entirely rainfed and highly prone to droughts and floods. Given th...
The Mongolian rural economy is based on livestock reared by semi-nomadic herders. Agriculture contri...
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to ...