Index Insurance : A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming? (English)

This paper documents the practical experience of deploying index insurance in a tropical country whose agriculture is dependent on dual sources of water: rainfall and irrigation. The paper introduces an innovative hybrid index insurance product based on the authors' experience of piloting the concept. The hybrid product was created to address the higher basis risk of using a single rainfall trigger that ignores the hydrological conditions on the ground...

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Arandara,Rathnija;

Gunasekera,Shanuki;

Mookerjee,Agrotosh;
Document Date
2019/11/07
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9055
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Sri Lanka,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2019/11/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Index Insurance : A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming?
Keywords
irrigation

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Arandara,Rathnija; Gunasekera,Shanuki; Mookerjee,Agrotosh.

Index Insurance : A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming? (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9055 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/186891573136575004

Index Insurance : A Viable Solution for Irrigated Farming? (English)

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