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Bangladesh : Policy Options for Agriculture Insurance

World Bank Group - 2018

Agriculture is a key sector in Bangladesh, but it is highly exposed to risks. While agriculture is a source of employment and livelihood for nearly one in two adults in Bangladesh and contributes about 16 percent to gross domestic product (GDP), it is highly exposed to natural hazards. In the...

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Rainfall risk and religious membership in the late nineteenth-century United States

Ager, Philipp; Ciccone, Antonio - 2014

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Insurance contracts when individuals "greatly value" certainty : results from a field experiment in Burkina Faso

Serfilippi, Elena; Carter, Michael R.; Guirkinger, Catherine - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 180 (2020), pp. 731-743

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An Employment Guarantee as Risk Insurance? Assessing the Effects of the NREGS on Agricultural Production Decisions

Gehrke, Esther - 2017

Uninsured risk constrains households in their production decisions in many developing countries. Similarly to crop …

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Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel

Delavallade, Clara - 2015

Although there is fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … exposed to yield risk, women face additional sources of lifecycle risk-particularly health risks associated with fertility and … childcare-that men do not. In essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women …

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Modeling uncertainty in large natural resource allocation problems

Cai, Yongyang; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs; Judd, Kenneth L.; … - 2020

The productivity of the world's natural resources is critically dependent on a variety of highly uncertain factors, which obscure individual investors and governments that seek to make long-term, sometimes irreversible investments in their exploration and utilization. These dynamic...

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