Agricultural Index Insurance for Development

By Nathaniel D. Jensen, Christopher B. Barrett. 2017

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Index insurance is often promoted as a solution to many of the barriers that are thought to limit the supply of formal insurance coverage to smallholder farmers and livestock owners in developing countries. This manuscript summarizes the state of index insurance, paying special attention to the key challenges facing index insurance if it is to become a more effective tool for development. We then offer recommendations to tackle those challenges by strategically investing in a set of public goods and services geared towards addressing key informational gaps and improving the quality of index insurance products around the world.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/38b5b8614d7494844006daf81bcd6925783912c6

Citations in the corpus

• After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection (2013, unknown): “Barnett, Barrett, and Skees (2008), Dercon et al. (2008), Miranda and Farrin (2012), Cole et al. (2012) and Jensen and Barrett (2016) provide summaries of the literature.”