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Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance?
Environmental shocks are drivers of poverty as well as a
fact of life in many rural areas of the developing world. In
the developed world, agricultural insurance provides some
protection from such calamities. But conventional ...
The Subjective Well-being Effects of Imperfect Insurance that Doesn’t Pay Out
In this paper we estimate the effects of an imperfect insurance coverage on subjective well-being of a poor, rural population, by exploring whether insurance in force improves subjective well-being and whether insurance ...
The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya
The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) product
leverages the strong correlation between a remotely
sensed vegetation index and livestock losses associated
with forage shortages to offer insurance coverage to
pastoralists ...
Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists
Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent
poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the ...
Sustainable livestock insurance for pastoralists
Presentation of Sustainable livestock insurance for pastoralists
Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists
Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the ...
East African herders insure against drought: An impact narrative from Kenya and Ethiopia
Brief of East African herders insure against drought: An impact narrative from Kenya and Ethiopia
Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Index-Based Livestock Insurance Demand in Southern Ethiopia
While index-based microinsurance has attracted considerable attention, uptake rates have been weak in many low-income
countries. We explore the purchase patterns of index-based livestock insurance in southern Ethiopia, ...