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Private Investment in Infrastructure
– The Mobilisation of Equity Capital
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Women’s Labour Supply and Household Insurance in AfricaThis paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women’s labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women in 30 Sub...
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Risk sharing and public transfersWe use public transfers in the form of food aid to test for the presence of risk sharing arrangements at the village level in rural Ethiopia. We reject perfect risk-sharing, but find evidence of partial risk-sharing via transfers. There is also...
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Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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Learning from Visa®?
– Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts
Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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Why is there Not More Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries?Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?
– Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for InsurancePart of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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Consumption Smoothing Across Space
– Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India
Part of Book Insurance Against Poverty
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Women’s Labour Supply and Household Insurance in AfricaThis paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women’s labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women in 30 Sub...
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Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the CaribbeanPart of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?Poor households with little or no wealth are particularly vulnerable to risks that reduce incomes and increase expenditures. This book addresses many of the risk-coping strategies for the rural poor, with a focus on micro level and household actions...
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Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania
– Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths
Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania’s social protection...
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Gender priming in solidarity games
– The Philippine context
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behavior? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can insure each other against risk of losses. We test this experimentally in a developing country setting, the Philippines. We consider...
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Gender priming in solidarity games
– The Philippine context
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can insure each other against the risk of losses. In the utility function, priming is represented as the ‘change in weight’ given to...
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Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance
– Evidence from Vietnam
Part of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change
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Can insurance help African pastoralists escape poverty traps in the face of climate change?Drought is a leading cause of persistent poverty and humanitarian crises among pastoralists in East Africa. In a new book in the UNU-WIDER and...
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Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the CaribbeanThis paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty...
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Risk Sharing and Public TransfersWe use public transfers in the form of food aid to test for the presence of risk sharing arrangements at the village level in rural Ethiopia. We reject perfect risk-sharing, but find evidence of partial risk-sharing via transfers. There is also...
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Inequality and RiskIn poor societies, asset accumulation serves as insurance. It also opens the door to wider inequality. Many societies prohibit certain types of accumulation, such as land sales or indenture contracts. This paper investigates the theoretical...
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Targeting and Informal InsuranceThe standard method of testing for efficient risk-sharing in village economies does not allow one to identify vulnerable households, only to make statements about the average risk in the village, or of sub-groups identifiable on the basis of...
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Why Isn't There More Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries?This paper proposes to organize thinking about the opportunities for improving and extending financial markets and safety nets for the poor, by focusing on factors that may explain why the linkage of local financial networks and safety nets with the...
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Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?
– Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
Mutual insurance has been shown, theoretically and empirically, to be incomplete and limited by asymmetric information and lack of enforcement mechanisms. While some research has shown that networks based on kinship, neighbourhood and ethnicity may...
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The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for InsuranceThe paper considers the macroeconomic impact of shocks to agricultural output and of negative and positive price shocks. It is shown that negative price shocks have particularly large externalities: it is estimated that the overall impact of these...
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Consumption Smoothing Across Space
– Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India
Panel data from villages in rural south India have been used for leading econometric studies on risk-sharing in village economies. The work has influenced debate on safety net design world-wide and has driven scholarly agendas on household economics...
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Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts
– Learning from Visa®?
We examine a simple extension to existing credit contacts for the poor (‘microfinance contracts’), that would allow financial institutions to provide repayment insurance to their clients. The proposed contract uses the repeated nature of loans to...
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Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network FormationIn economic literature insurance networks are often treated as exogenous institutions. Frequently, the assumption is made that some clearly identifiable group (e.g. ‘the whole village’ or ‘the extended family’) constitutes an insurance network. Still...
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