Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing countries often … receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index …-based rainfall insurance is studied through a randomized experiment in an environment where the informal risk sharing network can be …

resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …

risks. Interestingly, the use of protecting gadgets reduces the risk of health damages that emphasizes the necessity of …

unobservable risk, Ghatak (1999, 2000) shows that group-based, joint liability contracts price for risk more accurately than … individual contracts, provided that borrowers match homogeneously by risk-type. This more accurate risk-pricing can attract safe … borrowers and rouse an otherwise dormant credit market. We extend the theory to include correlated risk, and show that borrowers …

, using macro data, it is shown that banking spreads are countercyclical, even it is controlled for credit risk, monetary …

The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially during the last two decades, and also presents … hunger. [Ministry of Agriculture Report]. URL:[http://agricoop.nic.in/SIA111213312.pdf]. …

spatial misallocation in centrally provided public goods. This method can be employed to evaluate the large programs of public …