Innovations in insuring the poor
Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease wh...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2009
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| author | Hill, Ruth Vargas Torero, Maximo |
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| description | Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings together briefs written by businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers that document innovations, lessons learned, and areas of future work and action. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1594722025-11-06T04:08:46Z Innovations in insuring the poor Hill, Ruth Vargas Torero, Maximo poverty risk social welfare economic growth finance flooding Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor. Poor people often live in environments characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings together briefs written by businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers that document innovations, lessons learned, and areas of future work and action. 2009 2024-11-08T22:29:23Z 2024-11-08T22:29:23Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159472 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hill, Ruth Vargas; Torero, Maximo. 2009. Innovations in insuring the poor. 2020 Vision Focus 11. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159472 |
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| topic | poverty risk social welfare economic growth finance flooding |
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