INNOVATIONS IN INSURING THE POOR
By: EDITED BY RUTH VARGAS HILL AND MAXIMO TORERO
Contributors: International Food Policy Research Institute
Series: 2020 VISION FOR FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Focus 17
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780896296657
Subjects: Poverty
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Rajul Pandya-Lorch and Shenggen Fan; title: Innovations in Insuring the Poor: Overview by Ruth Vargas Hill and Maximo Torero; title: Risk and the Rural Poor by John Hoddinott; title: Risk, Poverty, and Insurance by Stefan Dercon; title: Microinsurance for Health and Agricultural Risks by Richard Leftley; title: Sustainability and Scalability of Index-Based Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods by Ulrich Hess and Peter Hazell; title: Intelligent Design of Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers and Pastoralists by Michael R. Carter; title: Experience with Weather Index-based Insurance in India and Malawi by Xavier Giné; title: Providing Weather Index and Indemnity Insurance in Ethiopia by Eyob Meherette; title: Index-based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia by Olivier Mahul, Nathan Belete, and Andrew Goodland; title: Health Insurance for the Rural Poor: Evidence from Cambodia by David I. Levine; title: Innovations in Health Insurance: Community-based Models by Johannes Jütting; title: Microfinance and Unexpected Consumption Expenditures by Richard Hornbeck; title: Providing Insurance through Microfinance Institutions: The Indian Experience by Rupalee Ruchismita and Sona Varma; title: Social Protection and Risk by John Hoddinott; title: Index Insurance Applied to Agriculture: The Mexican Case by Amado Villarreal González