characteristics, is applied, illustrating its usefulness for analysis of demand for potatoes in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Asia, the …

—on income distribution and asset accumulation in rural Pakistan. Using income decomposition techniques on a three-year panel …

Policy Research Institute’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) is working to address these topics through high … policy landscape for agricultural water management in Pakistan, to better understand how to engage with stakeholders in the … between various institutions influencing the water sector in Pakistan. Group interviews were conducted with national …

absence or inadequacy of risk-mitigating institutions and markets, and the need to protect the world's poorest communities … policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …

Farmers in developing countries face relatively large income risk and have limited access to formal financial products … that can help them manage their risk. We present results from a randomized controlled trial in rural China designed to … investment in activities that expose them to the risk being insured against. We find that insurance take-up is three times higher …

educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …