"A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER) Includes bibliographical references and index 18.Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks? / Jerry Skees, Panos Varangis, Donald F. Larson and Paul Siegel 11.Is a friend in need a friend indeed? : inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in Southern Ghana / Markus Goldstein, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet 19.Risk, poverty, and public action / Stefan Dercon. 12.The gradual erosion of the social security function of customary land tenure arrangements in lineage-based societies / Jean-Philippe Platteau 13.Do public transfers crowd out private transfers? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico / Pedro Albarran and Orazio P. Attanasio 14.Food aid and informal insurance / Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan 15.Why is there not more financial intermediation in developing countries? / Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane 16.Can food-for-work programmes reduce vulnerability? / Christopher B. Barret, Stein Holden and Daniel C. Clay 17.Learning from Visa? : incorporating insurance provisions in microfinance contracts / Loic Sadoulet. 1.Risk, insurance, and poverty : a review / Stefan Dercon 2.Consumption smoothing across space : testing theories of risk-sharing in the ICRISAT study region of South India / Jonathan Morduch 3.The two poverties / Abhijit V. Banerjee 4.Inequality and risk / Marcel Fafchamps 5.Household income dynamics in rural China / Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion 6.Health, shocks, and poverty persistence / Stefan Dercon and John Hoddinott 7.The macroeconomic repercussions of agricultural shocks and their implications for insurance / Paul Collier 8.Measuring vulnerability to poverty / Gisele Kamanou and Jonathan Morduch 9.Targeting and informal insurance / Ethan Ligon 10.Risk-sharing and endogenous network formation / Joachim De Weerdt. |
