This presentation took place at Rome, Italy on June 13, 2012 analyzing some initial results from the Index Based Livestock Insurance in northern Africa
In this paper we use panel data on horticultural growers in Nicaragua to address the determinants of adoption into the supermarket channel, the determinants of “duration” as supermarket suppliers, and the effect of time to adoption and duration on farm capital and farm technology choice.
We explore whether farm land and non-land assets determine the participation of tomato growers in modern markets in Nicaragua, and how farmers’ duration as supermarket suppliers affects their farm capital accumulation and technology.
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 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 examines asset dynamics for husband-owned, wife-owned, and jointly owned assets, using unique longitudinal survey data from rural Bangladesh.
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.