Brand valuation has taken great relevance within the companies. The reason is that it is constituted like an attribute more of the company. There is one characteristic that emphasizes over the rest: the difficulty to apply to objective criteria for its economic valuation. Although, it is a fact...

Agricultural insurances based on a climate index are an innovative form of insurance that represent a viable alternative for low-income countries. Such insurances are tied to a climatic index (e.g. the level of precipitation, temperature, humidity or crop yield) rather than an actual loss. This...

This book represents the first comprehensive effort to analyze informal finance in Peru. We gathered data from a survey designed to capture formal and non-formal credit and savings transactions. We surveyed rural households, urban micro entrepreneurs, and wholesalers from three regions: Junin,...

El Componente de Atención a los Desastres Naturales, “CADENA”, es un programa del Gobierno de México que acaba de cumplir 10 años de operación. A diferencia de otros fondos para la atención a desastres naturales, es administrado y supervisado por la cabeza ejecutiva del sector, en este...

The aim of this paper is to summarise a variety of dimensions of agricultural risk in Argentina and to propose different lines of research related to an integrated risk management framework at the macro and micro levels. First, we analyse the incidence of the primary sector in the Argentinean...

The aim of this work is to present an exploratory synthesis of international experience related to index-based insurance, in order to assess their potential applicability as adaptation to climate risk in the case of countries dependent of agriculture. It will attempt to define the particular...

The paper argues that agricultural loans granted by commercial banks in Peru are not being properly structured because they have not adequately considered the additional risks faced regarding commercial loans. Therefore, in order to improve their credit practices and policies, they require (i)...

Objetivo: Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos, primero, evaluar el efecto de las transferencias monetarias directas a productores agrícolas del Programa de Producción para el Bienestar (PPB) en el desarrollo humano de los beneficiarios en los municipios de México. Para ello se estiman...

El estudio evalúa cuáles son los factores más relevantes para que un pequeño productor agrícola demande asistencia técnica con el propósito de incursionar en mercados “dinámicos”; es decir, en mercados que puedan absorber cantidades crecientes de su cultivo. Los resultados muestran...

Taking into account the traditional structural weakness characterising the agrarian sector due to farmers’ scant output, associations and especially co-operatives attain special importance. Nonetheless, in numerous cases the economic and financial situation of these societies is not as strong...