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A Spatial Econometric Approach to Designing and Rating Scalable Index Insurance in the Presence of Missing Data
Index-Based Livestock Insurance has emerged as a promising market-based solution for insuring
livestock against drought-related mortality. The objective of this work is to develop an explicit
spatial econometric framework ...
Characterization for index based livestock insurance
Pastoral populations of subSaharan
Africa are particularly vulnerable to losses in wealth and productive assets via herdmortality shocks.
Although conventional insurance mechanisms covering individual losses are not cost ...
Genome-Enabled Prediction Models for Yield Related Traits in Chickpea
Genomic selection (GS) unlike marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) predicts breeding
values of lines using genome-wide marker profiling and allows selection of lines prior
to field-phenotyping, thereby shortening the breeding ...
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, ...