Barriers to Adoption of Products and Technologies that Aid Risk Management in Developing Countries

Risk is an important facet of life in developing countries; households are subject to both aggregate risks as well as idiosyncratic risks. In an attempt to broaden the scope of the discussion concerning the puzzlingly low demand for other types of income-generating and (ex-ante) risk-mitigating tech...

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Main Authors: Brown, Julia K., Zelenska, Tetyana V., Mobarak, Mushfiq A.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16365