Crop insurance in Karnataka / Vijay Kalavakonda, Olivier Mahul
"The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the second driest state in the country. Their analysis highlights weaknesses in product design, implementation challenges, and operational problems. The authors' finding is that th...
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| Main Authors: | Kalavakonda, Vijay |
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| Corporate Authors: | World Bank |
| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | [Washington, D.C] : World Bank, 2005 |
| Series: | Policy research working paper
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| Online Access: | URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
| Summary: | "The authors examine the performance of the crop insurance scheme in Karnataka, a southern state of India and the second driest state in the country. Their analysis highlights weaknesses in product design, implementation challenges, and operational problems. The authors' finding is that the crop insurance scheme in its current form does not achieve its objectives, either explicit (risk management) or implicit (safety net and containment of both the central and state governments' contingent liability). The crop insurance scheme performs poorly both in terms of coverage (number of hectares insured and number of farmers purchasing insurance) and financial performance. The authors provide a framework for designing a crop insurance scheme based on the premise that insurance is a cost effective risk management techniques. They also provide some new ideas and thinking toward both improving the existing crop insurance scheme and exploring alternatives to the current product, based on an area-yield approach. "--World Bank web site |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/15/2005 Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2005] Weitere Ausgabe: Kalavakonda, Vijay: Crop insurance in Karnataka |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (32 Seiten) |
