"Weather index-based microinsurance is a new promising tool for the poor, especially designed to overcome the problems brought along by other financial instruments like credit, savings or foreign said. Index-based microinsurance addresses the core problem of the poor: food insecurity. Lately, several parties, including international organisations, (re)insurances companies, microfinance institutions, NGOs an ...Täielik kirjeldus
"Weather index-based microinsurance is a new promising tool for the poor, especially designed to overcome the problems brought along by other financial instruments like credit, savings or foreign said. Index-based microinsurance addresses the core problem of the poor: food insecurity. Lately, several parties, including international organisations, (re)insurances companies, microfinance institutions, NGOs and governments subsidize and project-manage microinsurance projects ... This book offers an analysis of index-based microinsurance. It evaluates whether it is a sustainable instrument to reduce world poverty"--Page 4 of cover.