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Agricultural Insurance in Mesoamerica: An Opportunity to Deepen Rural Financial Markets

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  • Diego Arias
  • Katia Covarrubias

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This study analyses the opportunities and challenges presented by agricultural insurance instruments in the deepening of financial services in rural areas in Mesoamerica. It outlines a public policy framework to guide the decision-making process. It concludes that, in order to support the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the light of increasing trade liberalization and natural hazard risks, agricultural insurance should be at the forefront of the set of financial instruments to be developed.

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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank in its series IDB Publications with number 36538.

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Date of creation: Feb 2006
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Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:36538

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Keywords: Agriculture & Food Security :: Agricultural Policy; Agriculture & Food Security :: Agricultural Trade & Marketing; Financial Sector :: Financial Markets; Financial Sector :: Financial Services; Rural & Urban Development :: Rural Development; Agric WEB;

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Cited by:
  1. Mark D. Wenner, 2005. "Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications 36838, Inter-American Development Bank.
  2. Juan José Durante & Kurt S. Focke & Guillermo J. Collich & Mario Marcel & Torben Andersen, 2010. "Natural Disasters Financial Risk Management : Technical and Policy Underpinnings for the Use of Disaster-Linked Financial Instruments in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications 11118, Inter-American Development Bank.
  3. Pietro Masci & André Medici & Bernardo Barros Weaver, 2007. "The Relationship Between Insurance and Entrepreneurship in Brazil: Concepts and Basic Data," IDB Publications 7293, Inter-American Development Bank.

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