Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining feature of what it means to be poor … the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by … insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of …

continued to produce traditional crops and were not able to escape poverty. This finding reaffirms the idea that liberalizing … problems of different subgroups in poverty if the broader poverty issue is to be improved." Authors' Abstract …