Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing countries often … receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index …-based rainfall insurance is studied through a randomized experiment in an environment where the informal risk sharing network can be …

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … rates varied from 27.3 to 70.0 per 1,000 person-years, a 3-fold variation persisting after standardisation for demographic …, Venezuela, and urban Mexico, and similar in other sites. Mortality rates were higher among men, and increased with age …

loan waiver and an additional 1% subvention in farmer loan interest payments. …

of indexation (principal or interest), inflation index lag, issuance method, methodology to compute settlement price …

payments. The model is capable of being explicitly solved for the actual world economy provided the balance of payments data …

disadvantaged in terms of access to credit. Within the dryland areas too inter-personal inequalities in access to credit linkage … know the pattern of institutional credit availed across the districts. The paper is based on the secondary data on … institutional credit taken for agriculture purposes collected during input surveys conducted by Agricultural Census Division …