Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Areas in Lower-Income Countries

By B. Barnett, O. Mahul. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries (2009, methodology): “Having profiled weather index insurance, we now examine this product in the context of climate change adaptation.23 This examination begins by reviewing the ambiguity 21 Barnett and Mahul (2007); Barnett et al. (2008); Ibarra and Syroka (2006).”
Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges (2013, background): “Since Besley (1995) and Fafchamps (2003) have already reviewed the literature on these informal methods, they are only mentioned briefly below.”
Offering Rainfall Insurance to Informal Insurance Groups: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia (2012, unknown): “More recently, index-based products are increasingly promoted as an alternative, as they offer payouts based on easily observable data, with lower verification and incentive problems, and reduced transactions costs (Barnett and Mahul, 2007; Skees et al., 1999).”
Making index insurance attractive to farmers (2009, background): “This reduces transaction costs significantly, and yet it also introduces the problem of basis risk: when a farmer suffers a loss but receives no insurance payout ( Barnett and Mahul 2007 ).”
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya (2014, background): “…addressing various aspects of theoretical and applied concerns related to the design, implementation, and assessment of index insurance products (Barnett & Mahul 2007; Barrett et al. 2007; Binswanger-Mkhize 2012; Chantarat et al. 2007; Clarke 2016; Jensen & Barrett 2017; Miranda & Farrin 2012).”
Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products (2008, unknown): “More detailed discussions of implementation issues are found in Barnett and Mahul (2007), Bryla and Syroka (2007), Carpenter and Skees (2005), GlobalAgRisk (2006), Hess et al. (2005) and Skees, Varangis et al. (2005).”