Risk, Insurance, and Poverty: A Review

Insurance Against Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dercon, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Households; Income based strategies; Informal insurance; Risk management; Self insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920078865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199276838.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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