Many borrow, more save, and all insure: implications for food and micro-finance policy

By Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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The role of warehouse receipt systems in enhanced commodity marketing and rural livelihoods in Africa (2002, background): “Therefore, Zeller and Sharma (2000) advocate a combined range of policy instruments that increase household income, stabilise food prices and improve household access to finance for consumption smoothing.”
Women, microfinance, and savings: Lessons and proposals (2002, background): “lessons and proposals”
Microenterprise Development Programs in the United States and in the Developing World (2003, background): “The main impact of microenterprise programs––in both the United States and in the developing world––is not to increase income but rather to smooth income in the face of shocks (Cohen & Sebstad, 2000; Morduch, 1998, 1999b; Sherraden et al., 1998; Taub, 1998; Zeller & Sharma, 2000).”
From Urban to Rural: Lessons for Microfinance from Argentina (2001, background): “Third, access to finance can fill in for absent insurance markets and help to buffer consumption for the poorest families, especially outside the Pampa in the rural Northwest and Northeast provinces bordering on Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Chile (Zeller and Sharma, 2000).”
Overcoming Market Constraints on Pro‐Poor Agricultural Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2006, unknown): “Zeller and Sharma (2000) argue that an important part of financial services should be to enhance the poor’s ability to bear risks.”
Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “Dearer credit means higher cost of food production in smallholder systems, as few save and many borrow (Zeller and Sharma, 2000).”
The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions and Intermediation (2010, background): “Meanwhile, Zeller and Sharma, 2000 argue that an important part of financial services should be to enhance the poor's ability to bear risks.”
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya (2014, background): “…reduction (Barnett, Barrett & Skees 2008; Barrett et al. 2007; Boucher, Carter & Guirkinger 2008; Giné & Yang 2009; Hellmuth et al. 2009; Hess et al. 2005; Jensen, Barrett & Mude 2017; Karlan et al. 2014; Lybbert & Sumner 2012; Skees & Collier 2008; Skees, Hartell & Hao 2006; Zeller & Sharma 2000).”
Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia (2011, background): “Credit can also be used as a consumption smoothing mechanism in the event of food shortage in the household (Zeller and Sharma 2000).”
Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania (2008, background): “Microcredit schemes can be used to promote low-risk investment, and seem especially promising for poverty reduction when combined with various types of insurance (Zeller and Sharma 2000).”