The Demand for Commodity Insurance by Developing Country Agricultural Producers : Theory and an Application to Cocoa in Ghana

The Demand for Commodity Insurance by Developing Country Agricultural Producers : Theory and an Application to Cocoa in Ghana

The author considers the benefit to agricultural producers of commodity price insurance that provides in every year-but in advance of the resolution of production and price uncertainty--a minimum price for a fixed or variable portion of production....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarris, Alexander
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ADEQUATE SAFETY NETS
AGENTS
AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE
AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT
AGRICULTURE
ASSETS
BENCHMARK
BENEFICIARIES
COMMODITIES
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION FUNCTION
CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING
CONTINGENT VALUATION
COVARIATE SHOCKS
COVERAGE
CPI
CROP DIVERSIFICATION
CROP INSURANCE
DECISION VARIABLES
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DICHOTOMOUS CHOICE
DISCOUNT RATE
DROUGHT
ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EQUILIBRIUM
EXPECTED UTILITY
EXPECTED VALUE
EXPECTED VALUES
EXPENDITURES
EXPORTS
FARM INCOME
GDP
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS
INCOME
INCOME RISKS
INCOME SUPPORT
INDEMNITY
INSURANCE
INSURANCE CONTRACTS
INSURANCE INDUSTRY
INSURANCE SYSTEMS
LEISURE
LIBERALIZATION
LIQUIDITY
LIVING STANDARDS
MACROECONOMIC GROWTH
OPPORTUNITY COST
OPTIMIZATION
PER CAPITA INCOME
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
POVERTY LINE
PREMIUMS
PRICE FLOOR
PRICE FLUCTUATIONS
PRICE RISK
PRICE VARIATIONS
PRIVATE INSURANCE
PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION INPUTS
PRODUCTION PATTERNS
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC INSURANCE
REAL INCOME
RECIPROCITY
RISK
RISK AVERSION
RISK MANAGEMENT
RISK MITIGATION
SAFETY NETS
SAVINGS
SELF INSURANCE
SHARECROPPING
SMOOTHING CONSUMPTION
TAX REVENUE
TAX REVENUES
TIMBER
TIME SERIES
UTILITY FUNCTION
WEATHER PATTERNS
WILLINGNESS TO PAY
WTP COMMODITY PRODUCERS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT MARKETING
CASE STUDIES
COCOA TRADE
COMMODITY PRICES
PRICE VOLATILITY
INSURANCE PREMIUMS
INCOME SECURITY
LIVING STANDARDS INDICATORS
PRICE INDEXES
PRICE MARGINS
OPTION VALUE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2017580/demand-commodity-insurance-developing-country-agricultural-producers-theory-application-cocoa-ghana
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19271

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/09/2017580/demand-commodity-insurance-developing-country-agricultural-producers-theory-application-cocoa-ghana
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19271

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