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Does index insurance work?
Published on September 29, 2025 – Updated on September 29, 2025
VoxEu column. Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture.
by Pauline Castaing (World Bank) and Jules Gazeaud (CNRS, CERDI)
Index insurance can help smallholder farmers take on more productive risks, but its impacts remain modest, uncertain, and highly context dependent.
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Index insurance can help smallholder farmers take on more productive risks, but its impacts remain modest, uncertain, and highly context dependent.
Continue reading (Site VoxEu - CEPR).
Read also
Castaing, Pauline, and Jules Gazeaud. “Do Index Insurance Programs Live up to Their Promises? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments.” Journal of Development Economics 175 (June 2025): 103501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103501.