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Resilience - Overcoming Barriers to Microinsurance Adoption: Evidence from the Field

Overcoming Barriers to Microinsurance Adoption: Evidence from the Field

This paper provides an overview of the academic literature on microinsurance adoption in emerging markets, with a particular emphasis on randomised control trials. I discuss what we know, what we can reasonably hope to know using the extensive work on microcredit as a comparator, and what the available evidence implies for public policy.