Index insurance is a relatively new business area for Ethiopia, and which continues to generate much discussion on how insurance products can fit into the lives of rural communities. Farmers simply need to know that if they have a loss, will they get paid. Agriculture and livestock are the key sources of income for most […]
Innovations in Index Insurance to promote agriculture and livestock development in Ethiopia
Workshop held on 03 December 2015, Capital Hotel, Addis Ababa. ESSP hosted its first workshop on insurance in Addis Ababa, along with partners – ILRI and BASIS. The program appointed contributions from different aspects of insurance, citing examples across Ethiopia.
Saving for a Sunny Day
This article was originally posted on IFPRI's Insights website. Can insurance help Ethiopian farmers survive the droughts that are likely to come? Recently, scientists uncovered the inconvenient truth that drought in eastern Africa is likely here to stay. They placed the blame squarely on climate change—namely, on the linkage between the warming Indian Ocean and […]
Insurance Motives to Remit: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Ethiopian Internal Migrants
ESSP II Working Paper 25 "Insurance Motives to Remit: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Ethiopian Internal Migrants" by Alan de Brauw, Valerie Mueller, and Tassew Woldehanna. Abstract: Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation. Ample attention has been given to studying international remittance […]