Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists

Despite 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 povert...

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Autor principal: Carter, Michael R.
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161900

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