Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their livelihoods, including illness, accidents, and death as well as loss of assets such as animals, crops, and machinery. The poor are still predominantly rural, and their vulnerability is even higher than th...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2010
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| author | Wiedmaier-Pfister, Martina Klein, Brigette |
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| description | Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their livelihoods, including illness, accidents, and death as well as loss of assets such as animals, crops, and machinery. The poor are still predominantly rural, and their vulnerability is even higher than that of their urban peers. Health facilities are less available and less well equipped in rural areas; water, sanitation, roads, and telecommunication are less developed; and people are less educated and not as aware of risk-mitigation mechanisms. Given the rural character of poverty in many countries, poverty reduction remains strongly connected to agricultural development, and sustainable agricultural development depends on well-organized risk mitigation. One important tool for mitigating risk is microinsurance. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1545712025-11-06T04:31:00Z Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance Wiedmaier-Pfister, Martina Klein, Brigette microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their livelihoods, including illness, accidents, and death as well as loss of assets such as animals, crops, and machinery. The poor are still predominantly rural, and their vulnerability is even higher than that of their urban peers. Health facilities are less available and less well equipped in rural areas; water, sanitation, roads, and telecommunication are less developed; and people are less educated and not as aware of risk-mitigation mechanisms. Given the rural character of poverty in many countries, poverty reduction remains strongly connected to agricultural development, and sustainable agricultural development depends on well-organized risk mitigation. One important tool for mitigating risk is microinsurance. 2010 2024-10-01T14:02:21Z 2024-10-01T14:02:21Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154571 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Wiedmaier-Pfister, Martina; Klein, Brigette. 2010. Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 18(12). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154571 |
| spellingShingle | microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management Wiedmaier-Pfister, Martina Klein, Brigette Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title_full | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title_fullStr | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title_short | Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| title_sort | innovations in rural and agricultural finance microinsurance innovations in rural finance |
| topic | microfinance agriculture smallholders rural finance risk management |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154571 |
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