Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?

Poor households in rural areas are particularly vulnerable to risks that reduce incomes and increase expenditures. Most past research has focused on risk-coping strategies for the rural poor, specially on micro-level and household actions. These ar...

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Main Authors: Skees, Jerry, Varangis, Panos, Larson, Donald, Siegel, Paul
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1751124/can-financial-markets-tapped-help-poor-people-cope-weather-risks
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14816

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