Series title from jacket.
"A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
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 ... [et al.]
Risk, poverty, and public action / Stefan Dercon.
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Insurance against poverty. ISBN 0199276838. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
