from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on …

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides … evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this …

The weather index insurance market in India is the world's largest, having transitioned from small-scale and scattered … pilots to a large-scale weather based crop insurance program covering more than 9 million farmers. This paper provides a … lower basis risk. In addition to pure weather indexed products, hybrid products that combine both area yield and weather …

impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a …

Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …

vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to … expenditure/consumption outcomes, onto a forward-looking view of drought risk. The paper outlines the CAT risk modeling framework … construction. Results for a regression model are presented, estimating ex-post drought impacts on consumption for heterogeneous …

early warning framework and its use that could facilitate greater timeliness of drought response. The paper argues that … enable early action during the onset of a drought …

Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage …, weather index insurance has gained increasing attention as an effective tool to provide small-scale farmers coverage against …

-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support …