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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description 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 poverty is mounting and demands further efforts to solve this problem. This brief focuses on ways to solve this demand problem by designing index insurance contracts more intelligently.
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spelling CGSpace1619002025-11-06T04:22:56Z Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists Carter, Michael R. smallholders pastoralists rural poverty insurance demand functions 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 poverty is mounting and demands further efforts to solve this problem. This brief focuses on ways to solve this demand problem by designing index insurance contracts more intelligently. 2009 2024-11-21T09:59:16Z 2024-11-21T09:59:16Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161900 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Carter, Michael R. 2009. Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 17(6). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161900
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rural poverty
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Carter, Michael R.
Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title_full Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title_fullStr Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title_full_unstemmed Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title_short Innovations in insuring the poor: Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
title_sort innovations in insuring the poor intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists
topic smallholders
pastoralists
rural poverty
insurance
demand functions
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161900
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