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The Feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) : Smartphone Pictures for Affordable Crop Insurance
Ceballos, Francisco - 2019
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products to protect their livelihoods from catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a tool to improve the quality and affordability of...
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Changing Composition of Private Investment in Indian Agriculture and Its Relationship With Public Investment and Input Subsidies
Kumar, Anjani - 2020
assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of … growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and … formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in …
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A Poverty-Sensitive Scorecard to Prioritize Lending and Grant Allocation : Evidence from Central America
Hernandez, Manuel A. - 2016
Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. This paper proposes an innovative scoring tool that combines both a risk and poverty scorecard to prioritize...
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Is Agricultural Insurance Fulfilling its Promise for the Developing World?
Kramer, Berber; Hazell, Peter; Alderman, Harold; … - 2021
Agricultural insurance has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multi-peril crop insurance, and...
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Microinsurance Decisions : Gendered Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Clarke, Daniel; Kumar, Neha - 2015
Bangladesh it is often assumed that women are less involved in agriculture, and therefore agricultural insurance might not be of …
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Demand for Complementary Financial and Technological Tools for Managing Drought Risk
Ward, Patrick; Spielman, David J.; Ortega, David; … - 2015
Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the developing world. Financial and technological innovations that mitigate these risks have the potential to greatly benefit farmers in areas prone to such risks. In this study we...
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Insuring against Droughts : Evidence on Agricultural Intensification and Index Insurance Demand from a Randomized Evaluation in Rural Bangladesh
Hill, Ruth Vargas - 2017
It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs. Index insurance provides a means for managing risk without the burdens of asymmetric information and high transaction costs that plague traditional indemnity-based...
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Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-60 : The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments
Debowicz, Dario - 2013
relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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An Overview of Chinese Agricultural and Rural Engagement in Tanzania
Bräutigam, Deborah - 2013
clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088821
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The Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production : Evidence from Rural China
Qin, Yu - 2013
Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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