Insurance Against Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780199276837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 484 str.

Stefan Dercon

Opis

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack of insurance and social protection therefore constrains investment, growth, and poverty reduction. Public action to remedy this deficiency is merited, but what form should it take? This book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and social protection provision, including sustainability and poverty effects, in thorough, up-to-date thematic papers and case studies, development assessments, and policy analyses.

Recenzje

This is a rich and scholarly collection of papers that could help design a more effective poverty alleviation strategy - especially in a world characterized by diverse and pervasive risks against which large segments of the population are often defenceless.

O autorze

Stefan Dercon is a University Lecturer at the University of Oxford, and has been Professor in Development Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, a Research Officer at the centre of the Study of African Economies, a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.