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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...
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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...
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This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and … sovereign disaster risk financing, property catastrophe risk insurance, and agricultural insurance are also discussed. …Disaster and Climate Change Risk Financing -- Development of Earthquake Parametric Triggers for Contingent Credit …
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We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county-level database on emergency declarations triggered by natural...
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In this paper we analyze the impact of idiosyncratic shocks in a sector's supply chain on its export volume. In particular, we combine sectoral input-output linkages based on the production network of 172 countries and 12 sectors from 1990 to 2015 and information on extreme weather events to...
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