Dercon, Stefan (ed.), Insurance against Poverty, forthcoming 2003.

Table of Contents

Overview Stefan Dercon

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Risk and Insurance: evidence

Chapter 1 Risk, Insurance and Poverty: a review Stefan Dercon

(based on DP2002/22 Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets)

Chapter 2 Consumption Smoothing Across Space: Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India

Jonathan Morduch

(DP2002/55 file)

Risk and Poverty: Theory

Chapter 3 The Two Poverties Abhijit Banerjee

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Chapter 4 Inequality and Risk Marcel Fafchamps

(DP2002/07 file)

Risk and Poverty Persistence

Chapter 5 Household Income Dynamics in Rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

(DP2002/10 file)

Chapter 6 Health, Shocks and Poverty Persistence

Stefan Dercon and John Hoddinott

(DP2003/08 file)

Chapter 7 The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for Insurance Paul Collier

(DP2002/46 file)

Identifying the Vulnerable

Chapter 8 Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty

Gisele Kamanou and Jonathan Morduch

(DP2002/58 file)

Chapter 9 Targeting and Informal Insurance Ethan Ligon

(DP2002/08 file)

Risk and Social Institutions

Chapter 10 Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network Formation

Joachim De Weerdt

(DP2002/57 File)

Chapter 11 Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana

Markus Goldstein, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

(DP2002/25 text figures)

Chapter 12 The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies

Jean-Philippe Platteau

(DP2002/26 file)

Safety nets and social institutions

Chapter 13 Do Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Pedro Albarran and Orazio P. Attanasio

(DP2002/06: file)

Chapter 14 Food Aid and Informal Insurance

Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan

(DP2003/09: file)

Chapter 15 Why isn't there more Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries? Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

(DP2002/28: file)

Developing better protection for the poor

Chapter 16 Can-Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Christopher B. Barrett, Stein Holden and Daniel C. Clay

(DP2002/24: file)

Chapter 17 Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts: Learning from Visa®? Loïc Sadoulet

(DP2002/56 text )

Chapter 18 Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?

Jerry Skees, Panos Varangis, Donald Larson and Paul Siegel

(DP2002/23 file)

Conclusion

Chapter 19 Risk, Poverty and Public Action Stefan Dercon

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