Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya

This article describes a novel index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in Northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of poverty. We describe the methodology used to design the contract and its underlyin...

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Main Authors: Chantarat, S., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B., Carter, M.R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/17235

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