Cereal production accounts for about seventy percent of all agricultural land in Morocco. Cereal producer prices, influenced by the government, are higher than world prices. Production is divided into six broad agro-climatic zones. About half of cereal production is concentrated in the...

The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the second driest state in the country. Their analysis highlights weaknesses in product design, implementation challenges, and operational problems. The authors'finding is that the crop...

We compute a sharp small-time estimate for implied volatility under a general uncorrelated local-stochastic volatility model, with mild linear growth conditions on the drift and vol-of-vol. For this we use the Bellaiche\cite{Bel81} heat kernel expansion combined with Laplace's method to...

The purpose of this article is to provide a technical discussion of capital loading that “micro health insurance units” (MIUs) must add to the premium to maintain financial sustainability. MIUs offer benefit packages and require prepayment, that is, they create a rudimentary community-based...

A two-phase design used to sample tax records of businesses to obtain annual estimates of Canadian economic production is described. Classification information obtained from units in the first-phase sample is used during stratification for selection of the second-phase sample. Bernoulli sampling...