Index Insurance
Viability of weather index insurance in managing drought risk in Australia
... indemnity–based insurance and weather index ...indemnity-based insurance were discussed and the prospects of resolving these challenges by using an index based risk transfer product called ...
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Impact of Weather Index Insurance on Household Demand for Fertilizer in Tigray Region
... weather index insurance and year (wiiyr), high yielding variety seeds, households perception about their wealth status(wealth), gender of household head, educational level of household head, marital status ...
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Features and Pricing of Weather Index Insurance —based on rice temperature index insurance in Wangqing county
... temperature index insurance in Wangqing County, a set of process for pricing weather index insurance is sorted out, and the concept of anomaly in meteorology is innovatively introduced into ...
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Assessing farmer’s understanding to weather index insurance in tigray region
... crop insurance, the insurance company does not need to visit farmers’ fields to assess losses and determine ...the insurance has to be ...crop insurance, where under certain conditions farmers ...
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Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya
... rainfall index insurance prod- ucts that cover farmers against drought and excess ...weather-based insurance schemes, Kilimo Salama relies on data from automated weather stations to monitor local ...
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Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
... weather index insurance offers an alternative approach to social protection that, like cash transfers, has ignited considerable ...interest. Index products are designed to overcome supply side ...
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Index insurance benefits agricultural producers exposed to excessive rainfall risk
... Climate index insurance typi- cally has cheaper premiums than yield based insurance or revenue based insurance as it does not require expensive on-ground assessments and limits moral hazard ...
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The viability of weather index insurance in managing drought risk by Australian wheat farmers
... weather-based insurance is situated relative to competing alternatives and its costs and benefits in the specific context of ...weather index insurance. Consequently, a regionally-based ...
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Basis Risk and the Welfare Gains from Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
... IBLI index is measured in the same units as the insurable household losses, it (perhaps uniquely) allows for direct estimation of the magnitude and cross-sectional heterogeneity of basis ...of index values ...
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The Feasibility Analysis and Scheme Design of Raw Milk Price Index Insurance in China
... Price Index insurance can be an effective tool of market risk ...the insurance scheme and institutional innovations, the price risks could become ...price index are the core tasks of the ...
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Rainfall index insurance in India
... of index insurance demand that includes basis risk– the possibility that policy-holders may suffer a negative shock yet receive little or no ...use insurance policies, historical rainfall data, and ...
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Verifying the Effects of Risk Variables on Return Volatility of Sector Price Indices in the Nigeria Stock Exchange
... All-share index, banking index, insurance index, food and beverage index and oil and gas index ...All-share index (ASI) and food and beverage index (FBI), while ...
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Index-based agricultural insurance products: challenges, opportunities and prospects for uptake in sub-Sahara Africa
... of insurance regulatory environment, reluct- ance of banks and micro-finance institutes to finance agriculture sector, disbursement of loans too late for the planting season leading to a late sowing phase for ...
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Farmers' willingness to participate and pay for, and agricultural extension officers' disposition to communicate weather index based insurance scheme in Ghana : the case of the Upper East Region : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of AgriCommerce at Massey University, Manawatu Campus, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... life insurance in most countries, irrespective of development ...agricultural insurance takes a long time to be fully ...agricultural insurance in developing countries is attributed to a lack of ...
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Willingness to Pay for Index Based Crop Insurance in Ghana
... Index insurance is basically dependent on using triggers as referees for actual crop loss and loss ...an index threshold below or above, which payments start (Cole et ...the index such as rain ...
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Prospects of Weather Index-Based Crop Insurance in Bangladesh
... crop insurance is an important method by which farmers can stabilize their income and investment against disastrous effect of losses for natural hazards or low market price of the ...Crop insurance helps ...
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A STUDY ON INSURANCE IN INDIA
... but enjoy some special powers. The majority of Western Countries have state run medical systems so have less need for medical insurance. In the UK, for example, the corporate cover of employees, when added to the ...
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Performance Comparison and Structure Adjustment of Insurance Business of Property Insurance Companies
... the insurance premium income has been recorded in May 2016 without tax revenue, so the business statistics after 2016 and the business statistics of previous years are not ...of insurance business, Lloyd's ...
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Natural disasters: blessings in disguise?
... We exclude US small firms, i.e. US firms with stock price less than $5, to avoid small firm effects and trim 1 th and 99 th of the sample 2 . Table 2 presents the number of observations for each disaster in each ...
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A LEGISLATIVE STUDY AND GLOBALISATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN INDIA
... health insurance is generally used to describe a form of insurance that pays for medical ...include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care ...social insurance ...
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