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Selling formal insurance to the informally insured

Informal Risk Sharing, Index Insurance and Risk-Taking in Developing Countries

Working paper 1 Dec 2012 Firms and Farms

Authors

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Professor of Economics, Yale University

Mark Rosenzweig

Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, Yale University
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