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Insurance against poverty
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In this article, a review of risk, insurance and poverty in developing countries is presented, focusing on the effects of agricultural shocks and their implications for insurance, as well as the role of financial intermediation and public action.Abstract:
Overview RISK AND INSURANCE: EVIDENCE 1. Risk, Insurance and Poverty: a review 2. Consumption Smoothing Across Space: Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India RISK AND POVERTY: THEORY 3. The Two Poverties 4. Inequality and Risk RISK AND POVERTY PERSISTENCE 5. Household Income Dynamics in Rural China 6. Health, Shocks and Poverty Persistence 7. The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for Insurance IDENTIFYING THE VULNERABLE 8. Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty 9. Targeting and Informal Insurance RISK AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 10. Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network Formation 11. Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana 12. The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies SAFETY NETS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 13. Do Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico 14. Food Aid and Informal Insurance 15. Why isn't there more Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries? DEVELOPING BETTER PROTECTION FOR THE POOR 16. Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability? 17. Learning from Visa(R)? Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts 18. Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks? CONCLUSION 19. Risk, Poverty, and Public Actionread more
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