Hot Stuff: Index Insurance for Indian Smallholder Pepper Growers

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1585-1606

  Zant, Wouter ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asia; basis risk; crop index insurance; incomplete markets; India; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CROP PLANT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; INSURANCE SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS; SMALLHOLDER; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 48449099776     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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