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  title info:
    title: Insurance against poverty
  name:
    name part: Dercon, Stefan.
  name:
    name part: World Institute for Development Economics Research
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Stefan Dercon.
  note: "A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: d------
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Risk
    geographic: Developing countries
  classification: HC59.72.P6 I57 2005
  classification: 339.4/6/091724
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in development economics
  identifier: 0199276838 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2004025234
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025234.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025234.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 041026
    record change date: 20151101055509.0
    record identifier: in00002044927