Technology adoption is crucial for the development of low-income countries. This paper investigates how parametric insurance can contribute to improving access finance, and hence technology, smallholder farmers. In a model with moral hazard, we show that bundling loans may lower collateral requirements, thus promoting financial inclusion poor households. The case agricultural input weather-inde...

approved: Prasad Tadepalli Severe weather in the United States causes huge insured losses to crop and property frequently. It creates major impact and elicit diverse response in the weather insurance industry. Events like hail, storm, hurricane etc. are more likely to cause catastrophe losses. So it becomes crucial to collect and analyze these extreme weather information. Thus, weather data col...

Abstract This study examines farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance (WII) in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, using discrete choice experiments. It employs data taken from a survey of 317 rice farmers district Labutta Region, which was conducted March 2019. After being informed about WII and trigger conditions, were asked to answer questions on packages. The hypothetical packages consis...

This paper describes a weather-impacted traffic index based on three-dimensional weather information and applies it to air traffic delay estimation. The weather-impacted traffic indices were generated using the high-resolution Corridor Integrated Weather System, which provides accurate, automated and high update rate information on both convective weather location and echo tops. In contrast to ...

Weather extremes pose substantial threats to food security in areas where the main source of livelihood is rain-fed crop production. In most these areas, agricultural index insurance (AII) recognized as being capable securitizing production by providing safety nets against weather-induced losses. Unfortunately, however, AII does not indemnify farmers for non-weather-related This study investiga...

SPRING 2000 T he impact of weather on business activities is enormous and varies both geographically and seasonally. For example, the 1982-1983 and 1997-1998 El Niño conditions were associated with warm winters in the eastern and midwestern U.S., resulting in significant energy cost savings for consumers and businesses. In addition, these conditions suppressed hurricane activities in the Atlant...