BASIS Brief 2010-01-S: Impacto de servicios para el desarrollo de negocios rurales en el bienestar economico de productores en Nicaragua
Highlights the methodology and impact of BASIS CRSP research.
- Date of Publication: 3/1/2010
- Author(s): Patricia E. Toledo; Michael R. Carter
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Insuring Against the Weather: Addressing the Challenges of Basis Risk in Index Insurance using Gap Insurance
This research considers the following question: how can generic weather index products be designed and combined with network based savings, gifts and loans to insure some […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Colorado
- Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Adaptation and Innovations for Ethiopia
The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Ethiopia pilot project builds on lessons learned from a highly innovative pilot venture underway in northern Kenya, adapting that pilot to […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Cornell University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Interlinking weather index insurance with credit to alleviate market failures and improve agricultural productivity in rural Ethiopia
Smallholder farmers are beset by an interlocking set of market failures. Credit, insurance, and therefore the very use of costly inputs such as fertilizer can remain […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - San Diego
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Index-based Weather Insurance for Coffee Cooperatives in Guatemala
Risk reduction remains a major challenge in increasing productivity and enhancing livelihoods among smallholders in developing countries. Index-based weather insurance offers a new promise for this […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Berkeley
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Group Insurance: The Case of Cotton Producers in Mali
The aim of this project is to insure Malian cotton producers. The vast majority of cotton producers in Mali are small farmers for whom cotton represents […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/06/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Duke University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Dual Strike Point Index Insurance Contracts for Cotton Farmers in West Africa
The BASIS I4 research team, led by researchers at the University of California Davis and the University de Namur, designed an innovative multi-scale insurance index that […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Trip Report: National Capital and Poverty Reduction, Uganda: May 31- June 5, 2010
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): Gerald Shively
- Type of Document: Project Document
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment in Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): Xavier Gine; Jessica Goldberg; Dean Yang
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Explaining index-based livestock insurance to pastoralists
Abstract: Livestock production in arid and semi-arid rangelands is a risky enterprise. Covariate risk of catastrophic livestock loss due to drought is the most critical uninsured […]
- Date of Publication: 2010
- Author(s): John McPeak; Sommarat Chantarat; Andrew Mude
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
