This paper attempts to understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of rural India … against the risks. The study area (districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) is highly susceptible to floods with a major … surveys undertaken in the study area for flood affected households. The analysis is carried out using a risk sharing and self …

, Tuticorin, Mumbai and Rameshwaram. Informal trade between India and Sri Lanka is largely a one way trade from India to Sri Lanka … mechanisms for information flows, risk sharing and risk mitigation. The transaction costs of trading in the informal channels are … trade by reducing transaction costs through minimization of risk costs, market information and search costs. An important …

, as a means to encourage or improve people’s participation in environmental management in India. It provides an … estimation of pollution taxes for controlling air pollution in thermal power generation in India. Another case study examining … some bargaining methods that are already in force in India shows their usefulness in controlling industrial pollution …

In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce …:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426275_file_Fan_Karanb_Mahald_state_health_insurance_FINAL.pdf] …

expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is … examine the impact of health insurance on catastrophic health care payments for six Indian states.[IGIDR WP -2008-016]. …

The government of India started offering widespread crop in insurance in 1985, with the Comprehensive Crop Insurance … insurance has proved to be a failure worldwide, but India seems to have ignored both its own failure and the failure of other … Scheme. The CCIS has been replaced by the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme. The NAIS is considered to be an improvement …

the synergy in the context of India having the largest banking network on the one hand and lower insurance penetration and … insurance density on the other hand. While analysing the present trend of banks handling insurance products, it also highlights … going by the present pace, bancassurance would turn out to be a norm rather than an exception in future in India and it …