This paper seeks to understand the structure of demand for rainfall index insurance in India by developing two approaches to estimating households’ valuation of rainfall insurance and evaluating them against an experiment in which fixed prices are randomly assigned.
This paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets through a literature review on shocks and gendered asset dynamics and an analysis of new panel data (2007 and 2009) from Uganda and Bangladesh looking at the impact of negative shocks and positive events on men’s and women’s assets.
This paper examines asset dynamics for husband-owned, wife-owned, and jointly owned assets, using unique longitudinal survey data from rural Bangladesh.
In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian farmers in case of deficient rainfall during the primary monsoon season.
This presentation was presented by Cheryl Morden from IFAD describing the importance of understanding the impact of a rapidly changing world on poor rural men and women.
This presentation was presented on February 26, 2009 by The Chronic Poverty Research Center describing how to identify and resolve who are the chronically poor.
