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Crop insurance in Karnataka
Kalavakonda, Vijay - 2005
"The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the …
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Enhancing Crop Insurance in India
World Bank - 2012
India, is technically sound and appropriate in the context of India. The NAIS is based on an indexed approach, where average … insurance will have been prohibitively expensive, or even impossible, in a country such as India with so many small and marginal …
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India - Crop Insurance Non-Lending Technical Assistance : Summary of Policy Suggestions
World Bank - 2012
At the request of Government of India (GOI), the World Bank has provided technical assistance to the public insurance … company, Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AICI) to develop an actuarially sound rating methodology and improve the … economy factors and the underlying fragile economics of agriculture. The inherent risks in agriculture in India with its high …
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Risk modeling concepts relating to the design and rating of agricultural insurance contracts
Goodwin, Barry K. - 2004
"Goodwin and Mahul identify the key issues and concerns that arise in the design and rating of crop yield insurance plans, with a particular emphasis on production risk modeling. The authors show how the availability of data shapes the insurance scheme and the ratemaking procedures. Relying on...
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Agricultural Insurance in Latin America : Developing the Market
World Bank - 2012
The study focuses on how agricultural insurance can complement and enhance agricultural risk management in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). The overall objective of this study is to provide the key elements for a strategy to increase the penetration of agricultural insurance in the region. The...
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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture : Guidance for Development Practitioners
World Bank - 2011
This paper is a distillation of the findings of the work undertaken by the World Bank. It is deliberately not a collation of case studies, but rather a practical overview of the subject. The purpose of this paper is to introduce task managers and development professionals, who are not insurance...
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Jamaica : Toward a Strategy for Financial Weather Risk Management in Agriculture
World Bank - 2013
This report forms part of the technical assistance provided by the World Bank under the Non-lending Technical Assistance Program for the Caribbean 'market-based agriculture risk management in the Caribbean.' The program is largely financed by the European Union All Agriculture Commodities...
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China : Innovations in Agricultural Insurance
World Bank - 2013
This report explains why agricultural insurance is expensive to deliver to small farm households, details risk assessment in four provinces, and recommends China put more resources in developing products that are more suited to an agricultural economy that is dominated by small farm households....
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China : Innovations in Agricultural Insurance, Technical Annexes
World Bank - 2013
This report explains why agricultural insurance is expensive to deliver to small farm households, details risk assessment in four provinces, and recommends China put more resources in developing products that are more suited to an agricultural economy that is dominated by small farm households....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557364
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Agricultural Insurance in Bangladesh : Promoting Access to Small and Marginal Farmers
World Bank - 2013
Bangladesh is ranked as the world's fifth most exposed country to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, and droughts. The purpose of this study is to investigate the viability of agricultural insurance in Bangladesh, particularly for small and marginal farmers and to present the...
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