Crop microinsurance: tackling poverty, one insurance policy at a time

Agrotosh Mookerjee, Daniel Clarke, Dermot Grenham, James Sharpe and Daniel Stein

Annals of Actuarial Science, 2014, vol. 8, issue 2, 253-280

Abstract: Crop index microinsurance is a novel product that has been piloted and implemented in many developing countries. We attempt to give an overview of crop index microinsurance, covering the major issues needed to design, price and implement a crop index microinurance programme. In some ways, providing insurance to the poor is fundamentally different to providing insurance to the middle-income or rich; in other ways, including in the actuarial fields of product design, pricing and risk financing, there are strong similarities. We offer a stylised discussion of these differences and similarities, with particular reference to issues of potential interest to actuaries, and propose an actuarial framework for crop index microinsurance. Case studies from Malawi and the Philippines provide examples for what does and what does not seem to work in crop index microinsurance, and motivation for further work needed.

Date: 2014
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