Risk, Insurance, and Poverty: A Review

By Stefan Dercon. 2004

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Innovations to Make Markets More Inclusive for the Poor (2008, unknown): “In part due to their limited risk-management strategies, and to the entry constraints on other more diversified income opportunities, the poor often find no recourse but to engage in low-return low-risk activities (Dercon, 2005).”
Financial inclusion and poverty: a tale of forty-five thousand households (2020, background): “Many households tend to be vulnerable because of economic fluctuations, climatic risks and several individual-specific shocks (Dercon 2005).”
Safeguarding food security in volatile global markets. (2011, background): “Co-insurance at the family or village level is ineffective for common shocks which impact the insurer as well as the insured (Dercon, 2005).”
A Theory of Rational Demand for Index Insurance (2016, background): “The rationale typically given is quite convincing: agriculture is an uncertain business, leaving households vulnerable to serious hardship (Dercon 2004, Collins et al. 2009), and traditional indemnity-based approaches to crop insurance were unsustainably expensive, plagued by moral hazard, adverse…”
Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective (2014, background): “A large literature has evolved on the risk management and adaptation strategies of rural households (e.g., Alderman & Paxson, 1992; Coate & Ravallion, 1993; Deaton, 1997; Dercon, 2005; Foster, 1988; Morduch, 1995; Udry, 1990).”
Agriculture for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007, background): “…staples (the latter often include the majority of smallholders), thereby creating more incentives for specialization and avoiding periodic decapitalization of farm operations that often results from farms having to deal with periodic food price shocks (Dercon, 2004, Dioné, 1989, Hazell, 2006).”
Community-Based Risk Management Arrangements: A Review (2010, background): “For example, as discussed by Dercon et al. (2006), homegrown burial societies in”