Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Bangladesh farmers can now breathe easy

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Bangladesh farmers can now breathe easy / John Jimmy

Sumario: Bangladesh suffers from the vagaries of nature with frequent droughts, flooding and storms that take a heavy toll on the farming community, whose livelihood is affected causing extreme distress and social unrest. ADB's $2.5m pilot crop insurance programme launched in March 2014 provides cover far adverse weather events to insured farmers atan affordable price by offering quick pay-outs within certain predefined parameters or when an index that stands as a proxy for the loss reaches a trigger point. We speak to Messrs Arup Chatterjee and Md Mortaza Golam from ADB on the impact of the crop insurance scheme and the experiences from the market.

En: Asia insurance review. - Singapore : Ins Communications Pte Ltd., 2009- = ISSN 0218-2696. - 02/07/2018 Número 7 - julio 2018 , p. 20-21

1. Mercado de seguros . 2. Bangladesh . I. Título.