عنوان

Insurance against poverty

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0199276838

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Insurance against poverty

[Electronic Resource]

/ edited by Stefan Dercon

Oxford ;New York

: Oxford University Press,

, 2005.

xvi, 465 p.

: ill. ; 25 cm.

([UNU-WIDER studies in development economics])

Series title from jacket.

"A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and social protection provision - including sustainability and poverty effects, in thematic papers and case studies, development assessments, and policy analyses"--Provided by publisher.

Risk, insurance, and poverty : a review / Stefan Dercon -- Consumption smoothing across space : testing theories of risk-sharing in the ICRISAT study region of South India / Jonathan Morduch -- The two poverties / Abhijit V. Banerjee -- Inequality and risk / Marcel Fafchamps -- Household income dynamics in rural China / Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion -- Health, shocks, and poverty persistence / Stefan Dercon and John Hoddinott -- The macroeconomic repercussions of agricultural shocks and their implications for insurance / Paul Collier -- Measuring vulnerability to poverty / Gisele Kamanou and Jonathan Morduch -- Targeting and informal insurance / Ethan Ligon -- Risk-sharing and endogenous network formation / Joachim De Weerdt -- 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 -- The gradual erosion of the social security function of customary land tenure arrangements in lineage-based societies / Jean-Philippe Platteau -- Do public transfers crowd out private transfers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico / Pedro Albarran and Orazio P. Attanasio -- Food aid and informal insurance / Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan -- Why is there not more financial intermediation in developing countries? / Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane -- Can food-for-work programmes reduce vulnerability? / Christopher B. Barrett, Stein Holden, and Daniel C. Clay -- Learning from Visa?? Incorporating insurance provisions in microfinance contracts / Loeic Sadoulet -- Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks? / Jerry Skees ... [et al.] -- Risk, poverty, and public action / Stefan Dercon.

Studies in development economics

Poverty--Developing countries

Risk--Developing countries

Dercon, Stefan

World Institute for Development Economics Research

ایران

339.4,6,091724

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