Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion.

This paper introduces a liquidity constraint in reference-dependent models for wealth and intertemporal choice. For people without access to credit, reference-dependence can increase savings, even when it would decrease savings in the absence of a liquidity constraint

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The findings highlight the importance of investment in institutional credibility as a precondition to attract women farmers to sign up for WII, particularly in an investment environment characterized by poor governance and weak institutional accou

Most index-based insurance products have been developed without giving explicit attention to gender. However, there is ample evidence that shocks affect men and women differently and that they allocate resources in different ways.

In addition to human casualties and physical damage to infrastructure, natural disasters affect survivors emotionally and psychologically.

In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors.

Presidential Address presented at the 74th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics held on December 18, 2014 at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad Maharashtra

This study was conducted to determine the impact on world prices, agricultural commodities production, and food security and nutrition of raising the annual growth in agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) from the current estimate of 1.6 pe

Paper presented at Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (DRFI) Workshop, Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 4-5, 2015

This study (i) examines the implementation of recent agricultural finance policies and incentives associated with the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the stimulus funds for boosting agricultural l