• Media type: E-Book; Thesis
  • Title: Demand and design considerations for smallholder farmers’ weather index insurance products
  • Contributor: Ceballos, Francisco [Author]; Qaim, Matin [Degree supervisor]; Torero, Maximo [Other]; Mußhoff, Oliver [Other]
  • Published: Göttingen, 2017
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource; Illustrationen, Diagramme
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: Hochschulschrift
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  • University thesis: Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2017
  • Footnote: Kumulative Arbeit
  • Description: This cumulative dissertation discusses a range of topics related to the demand for and considerations around product design of weather index insurance instruments aimed at smallholder farmers’ risk management. The second chapter, “Demand for a Simple Weather Insurance Product in India: Theory and Evidence,” uses survey and administrative data from a project conducted in Madhya Pradesh, India during the 2010-2012 period. As part of this project, a new index insurance product was introduced to protect smallholder farmers of rainfed soybean from both deficit and excess rainfall during two cons...
  • Access State: Open Access