This paper fleshes out observations of approaches to offering index insurance and proposes that the next generation of index insurance contracts be designed for development impact.
The paper explores the context and constraints to fertilizer use among smallholders in Ethiopia, and whether these constraints affect the demand for weather index insurance (WII), designed to insure the cost of input use.
This presentation took place at Rome, Italy on June 13, 2012 analyzing some initial results from the Index Based Livestock Insurance in northern Africa
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 presentation took place in Lima, Peru on July 11, 2011 discussing the fiscal support the insurance industry needs to better support smaller farm holders.
This presentation took place in Lima, Peru on July 11, 2011 and explores the benefits of better public and private sector organization in efforts exploring index insurance.
This paper is a methodological exploration of research design for evaluating complex financial market interventions in the presence of low participation and program effect heterogeneity.