The research team describes the methodology used to design the contract and its underlying index of predicted area-average livestock mortality in Index-based Livestock Insurance. The Principal Investigator describes the contract pricing and the risk exposures of the underwriter to establish IBLI’s reinsurability on international markets.
This presentation took place in Washington DC, United States on June 28, 2016, and was about means-tested cash transfers emerging as the instrument of choice, spreading from middle income early adopters to lower income countries.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how behavioral lab experiments have uncovered a wealth of evidence contradictory to standard economic workhorse theories.
This paper presents a novel way to understand the low uptake of index insurances using the concept of discontinuity of preferences through a field experiment with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso.
This presentation took place in Maputo, Mozambique on September 15, 2014 describing the effects of Mozambique missing the opportunity of adopting improved seeds and fertilizer in the 20th century. This presentation is translated from Portuguese.
In this paper, we present a novel way to understand the low uptake of index insurance using the interlinked concepts of ambiguity and compound lottery aversion.
This paper addresses the reasons for this current discrepancy between promise and reality. We conclude on perspectives for improvements in product design, complementary interventions to boost uptake, and strategies for sustainable scaling up of uptake.
In this paper, we lay out the logic and impact evaluation methodology of this multi-dimensional pilot intervention in Mozambique designed to evaluate the impact of voucher coupons in both in the short and medium terms.
