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001 2004025234
003 DLC
005 20070515133805.0
008 041026s2005 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004025234
020 $a0199276838 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56840331
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042 $apcc
043 $ad------
050 00 $aHC59.72.P6$bI57 2005
082 00 $a339.4/6/091724$222
245 00 $aInsurance against poverty /$cedited by Stefan Dercon.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2005.
300 $axvi, 465 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $a[UNU-WIDER studies in development economics]
500 $aSeries title from jacket.
500 $a"A study prepared by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
520 $a"This book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and social protection provision - including sustainability and poverty effects, in thematic papers and case studies, development assessments, and policy analyses"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRisk, 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.
650 0 $aPoverty$zDeveloping countries.
650 0 $aRisk$zDeveloping countries.
700 1 $aDercon, Stefan.
710 2 $aWorld Institute for Development Economics Research.
830 0 $aStudies in development economics.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025234.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004025234-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2004025234-b.html