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Innovations in insuring the poor /
- Title
- Innovations in insuring the poor / edited by Ruth Vargas Hill and Maximo Torero.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009.
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- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : ill.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- "... This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings, and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings together briefs written by businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers that document innovations, lessons learned, and areas of future work and action ..."--Introduction.
- Series Statement
- 2020 focus ; 17
- 2020 vision for food, agriculture, and the environment
- Uniform Title
- 2020 vision food policy report.
- Focus (International Food Policy Research Institute) ; 17, brief 1-15.
- Subject
- Note
- Cover title.
- "December 2009."--P. [4] of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available on the World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Risk and the rural poor / John Hoddinott -- Risk, poverty, and insurance / Stefan Dercon -- Microinsurance for health and agricultural risks / Richard Leftley -- Sustainability and scalability of index-based insurance for agriculture and rural livelihoods / Ulrich Hess and Peter Hazell -- Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists / Michael R. Carter -- Experience with weather index-based Insurance in India and Malawi / Xavier Giné -- Providing weather index and indemnity insurance in Ethiopia / Eyob Meherette -- Index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia / Olivier Mahul, Nathan Belete, and Andrew Goodland -- Health insurance for the rural poor: evidence from Cambodia / David I. Levine -- Innovations in health insurance: community-based models / Johannes Jütting -- Microfinance and unexpected consumption expenditures / Richard Hornbeck -- Providing insurance through microfinance institutions: the Indian experience / Rupalee Ruchismita and Sona Varma -- Social protection and risk / John Hoddinott -- Index insurance applied to agriculture: the Mexican case / Amado Villarreal González --
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library