"A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
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Series title from jacket.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 / Loïc Sadoulet -- Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks? / Jerry Skees [and others] -- Risk, poverty, and public action / Stefan Dercon.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Insurance against poverty.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Poverty-- Developing countries.
Risk-- Developing countries.
Armoede.
Armut.
Armut.
INSURANCE.
Poverty.
POVERTY.
Risico's.
RISK MANAGEMENT.
Risk.
Sociale zekerheid.
Soziale Sicherheit.
Soziale Sicherheit.
Verzekeringswezen.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
339
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4/6/091724
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HC59
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72
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P6
Book number
I57
2005
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
83
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14
System Code
bcl
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Dercon, Stefan.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
World Institute for Development Economics Research.