Insurance Against Poverty

By Stefan Dercon. 2004

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Subfields: Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications (2003, background): “Identifying and explaining chronic poverty Because different people need different types of assistance through policy or project interventions, researchers and policymakers must be able to sort between them.”
Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi (2011, neutral): “…have formal insurance against economic shocks, many have informal insurance mechanisms that they can use, such as self-insurance (portfolio spread, income diversiﬁcation, temporary migration), village-level solidarity mechanisms, or even outside insurance against weather calamities (Dercon 2004).”
Designing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya (2013, background): “In order to limit risk exposure, risk averse poor households often select low-risk, low-return asset and activity portfolios that trade off growth potential and expected current income for a lower likelihood of catastrophic outcomes (Eswaran and Kotwal 1989, 1990; Rosenzweig and Binswanger 1993; Mor”
Self-Reported Food Insecurity in Africa During the Food Price Crisis (2013, background): “Indeed, it has been extensively demonstrated that, in order to meet their consumption needs, rural households may sell their productive assets such as seeds and livestock, thereby jeopardizing their future earnings prospects (Dercon, 2004; Poulton et al., 2006).”
The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages (2009, background): “(2008), Dercon (2005), and Hoddinott (2008) provide further examples and references on this subject.”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, background): “This is why more effective risk management, including social protection measures, is needed (Dercon, 2004b).”
Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs : theory and empirical evidence (2008, background): “…empirical evaluation of the complete market hypothesis in village economies has led to a better understanding of market failures and to a better identi cation of the characteristics of households who are most a¤ected by these failures (Deaton, 1997, Morduch, 1999, Fafchamps, 2003, Dercon, 2004).”
Work and Wellbeing in Informal Economies: The Regulative Roles of Institutions of Identity and the State (2010, neutral): “Dercon (2004) and Kannan (2005, p.”