Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products

By B. Barnett, Christopher B. Barrett, J. Skees. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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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.”
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured (2012, background): “In theory, an optimally designed weather index-based insurance product can address many market failures, mitigate underinvestment in more profitable agricultural technology, and increase productivity even among risk-averse individuals (Barnett et al., 2008).”
Financial instruments for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation (2015, background): “Besides providing post-disaster liquidity, insured households and farms may be more creditworthy, meaning that insurance can enable productive investments and thus help high-risk agents escape disaster-induced poverty traps (Barnett et al. 2008).”
A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development (2010, background): “As discussed by Carter and Barrett (2006), there are several types of dynamic models in which risk and capital constraints come together to create a poverty trap, understood as an initial wealth threshold below which the household will optimally settle into a lowlevel dynamic equilibrium. Households”
Where and how index insurance can boost the adoption of improved agricultural technologies (2016, unknown): “[1]).”
Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review (2014, background): “Options range from increasing the efficiency of crop and livestock systems via various components such as soil and nutrient management, water harvesting and retention, improving ecosystem management and biodiversity, diversification of on-farm activities, use of weather forecasts and early warning s”
Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries (2009, methodology): “4 For example, Barnett et al. (2008); Sachs and Arthur (2005). 5 IPCC (2007); Morton (2007); Corbera et al. (2006). 6 For example, Linnerooth-Bayer et al.”
Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing (2007, background): “2 This section draws heavily on Barnett et al. (2006) and Carter and Barrett (2006).”