This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product designed to compensate … poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth dynamics based on a model parameterized using rich panel and experimental … data from the region. The simulations allow us to investigate patterns of willingness to pay for asset index insurance that …

current research focuses on improving food insecurity measurement. Yet estimated prevalence rates and patterns remain tenuous …

Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the nature and extent of poverty … expenditure poverty, this paper develops an asset-based approach to poverty analysis that makes it possible to distinguish deep …-rooted, persistent structural poverty from poverty that passes naturally with time due to systemic growth processes. Drawing on the …