Insuring against the weather
Weather risk remains a major challenge to farming in poor countries that face frequent droughts. Recent evidence on index-based weather insurance points to low take-up rates largely due to basis risk (i.e. residual risk left uninsured by the index). Using randomized control trials, we study to what...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153388 |
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