Paper: Underwriting Area-Based Yield Insurance to Crowd-In Credit Supply and Demand This paper instead analyzes two index-based insurance schemes, one based on a weather index, and a second based on measured average yields.
Paper: The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty: An asset-based approach This paper briefly discusses some feasible estimation strategies for empirically identifying poverty traps and long-term, persistent structural poverty, as well as relevant extensions of the popular Foster-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures.
