Improving humanitarian response to slow-onset disasters using famine indexed weather derivatives

This paper illustrates how weather derivatives indexed to forecasts of famine can be designed and used by operational agencies and donors to facilitate timely and reliable financing, for effective emergency response to climate-based, slow-onset disasters such as drought. We provide a general framewo...

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Main Authors: Chantarat, S., Turvey, C.G., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: 2008
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/910

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