Insurance against Poverty
ISBN13: 9780199276837ISBN10: 0199276838
Hardback,
484 pages
Dec 2004,
In Stock
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Description
Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack of insurance and social protection therefore constrains investment, growth, and poverty reduction. Public action to remedy this deficiency is merited, but what form should it take? This book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and social protection provision, including sustainability and poverty effects, in thorough, up-to-date thematic papers and case studies, development assessments, and policy analyses.Features
- In the important and topical area of insurance and risk, this book proposes new forms of insurance for developing economies.
- Thorough, up-to-date thematic papers and case studies, development assessments and policy analyses from a broad scope of disciplines.
- Of interest to business people, policy-consultants, regulators, policy-makers, and scholars --
due to the lack of comparative research on this topic, the book fills a niche in the market and in the literature. - An outstanding collection of eminent contributors.
About the Author(s)
Stefan Dercon is a University Lecturer at the University of Oxford, and has been Professor in Development Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, a Research Officer at the centre of the Study of African Economies, a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
