Weather-based crop insurance in India: Towards a sustainable crop insurance regime?

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 73-81

  Nair, Reshmy ^a  

^a ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

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