Insurance against poverty

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<publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
<dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
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<abstract>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</abstract>
<note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Stefan Dercon</note>
<note>Estudio preparado por el World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), the United Nations University</note>
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