This paper describes a novel index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in northern … Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of poverty. We describe …

We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their … two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is provided by government authority and is designed to help small firms with … that the minimum cost of the present insurance scheme is similar to about 1100 man-years. On top of that comes a …