This paper provides an overview of concepts, issues and research on the relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive rural transformation. When considering how the growth of demand for financial services is related to the broader processes of structural and rural transformation, the...

The objective of this paper is to frame the key issues and summarize the current state of knowledge about and innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as they relate to the management of climate risk for poverty reduction, especially of chronic or persistent poverty. In the...

Considering a pure exchange economy with habit formation utility, this paper explores the equilibrium relationships between the market pricing kernel, the market prices of risks and the market risk aversion under a continuous time stochastic volatility model completed by liquidly traded put...

Considering a pure exchange economy with habit formation utility, this paper explores the equilibrium relationships between the market pricing kernel, the market prices of risks and the market risk aversion under a continuous time stochastic volatility model completed by liquidly traded put...

This paper illustrates how weather derivatives indexed to forecasts of famine can be designed and used by operational agencies and donors to facilitate timely and reliable financing for effective emergency response to climate-based, slow-onset disasters such as drought. We provide a general...

1 China’s Agriculture in the 1930s: An Overview -- 2 John Lossing Buck and Land Utilization in China -- 3 Calamities and Conflict Affecting Rural China 1929–1933 -- 4 The Discovery and Restoration of Buck’s Original Data -- 5 Reliability of John Lossing Buck’s Land Utilization Survey...