Insurance Against Covariate Shocks: The Role of Index-Based Insurance in Social Protection in Low-Income Countries of Africa

By H. Alderman, Trina Haque. 2007

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The impact of droughts and floods on food security and policy options to alleviate negative effects (2007, background): “Malawi used a call option on the South African commodity exchange in 2005/2006, saving US$60−90 on each ton of maize imported, at a cost of US$25 per ton (Alderman and Haque, 2006: 18).”
Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing (2007, background): “Mexico’s FONDEN programs are the principle examples of such projects today, combining Type I and Type III uses of the IBRTP.”
Is There Too Much Hype about Index-based Agricultural Insurance? (2012, background): “Unfortunately most insurance advocates have ignored these mechanisms and, therefore, expected much higher demand and impact from insurance than their pilots eventually encountered (for example, World Bank, 2005; Alderman and Haque, 2007).”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “While microinsurance can be offered by anyone, including NGOs and the private sector, microfinance institutions have shown the biggest interest, for example offering life insurance as a way to insure their outstanding loans (Alderman and Haque, 2007).”
Why does famine persist in Africa? (2009, background): “Also promising are innovative approaches to agricultural risk management, such as weather-indexed crop insurance (Alderman and Haque 2007), which has the potential to buffer farmer income and consumption against production variability and could become an important component of an anti-famine…”
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion (2012, background): “Compared to microfinance, micro-insurance innovation and availability is much more limited – although potentially just as important (Alderman and Haque, 2007; Barrett et al., 2007).”
Designing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya (2013, background): “1 Alderman and Haque (2007), Barnett et al.”