Poverty traps and Index-Based risk transfer products

A growing literature suggests that in low-income countries, households with few assets can be trapped in chronic poverty. This article reviews relevant threads of the poverty traps literature to motivate a description of the opportunities presented by innovative index-based risk transfer products. T...

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Autores principales: Barnett, B.J., Barrett, Christopher B., Skees, J.R.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2008
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/927

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