assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … significantly decreases the basis risk, compared to using simulated sowing dates. Finally we found that the gain of the weather …

, results underline the limited impact of weather on the interconnection of these markets. …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … dates. Finally we find that the gain of the weather-index based insurance is lower than that of hedging against cotton price …

of cash transfer compared to 2 alternatives: an outreach health and nutrition programme with a behavioral change … instead be driven by the equal distribution of quality services through outreach health and nutrition programmes (20% to real …