Designing Index-Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya

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Chantarat, Sommarat
Mude, Andrew
Barrett, Christopher B.
Carter, Michael R

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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This article describes a novel index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in Northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of poverty. We describe the methodology

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Journal of Risk and Insurance

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2037-12-31