Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE

MAP20070039418

Insurance against poverty / edited by Stefan Dercon. — Finland : Oxford University Press, 2005

22 p. ; 30 cm

Estudio preparado por el World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), the United Nations University

Introduction -- Why public action for more insurance and social protection? -- Some limits to social protection -- Learning from informal risk-sharing institutions -- Social risk-sharing institutions and exclusion -- Scaling up informal institutions -- The scope for public action to provide broader social protection -- Introducing new insurance products -- Promoting more self-insurance via savings and microcredit -- The role of targeted transfers -- Institutions, credibility and public action

1. Países en desarrollo . 2. Pobreza . 3. Mercado de seguros . 4. Protección social . 5. Identificación de riesgos . 6. Teoría del riesgo . I. Dercon, Stefan . II. Título.