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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The
link to the publication is: <a
href="http://www.ifpri.org/publication/innovations-insuring-poor">http://www.ifpri.org/publication/innovations-insuring-poor</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Innovations in Insuring the Poor<br>
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Risk and poverty are inextricably linked. Susceptibility to risk is a defining
feature of what it means to be poor. Poor people often live in environments
characterized by high weather and disease risk, and it is poor households that
have the fewest tools to deal with drought, floods, and disease when they
occur. Breaking the link between risk and poverty by insuring poor people both
lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in
income growth.<br>
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This set of briefs considers how to increase the tools available to poor
households to manage agricultural and health risks. The focus is how to develop
insurance markets, along with other financial instruments such as credit, savings,
and social protection policies. The series does not document the proven impact
of insurance markets for the welfare of poor people; rather, it brings together
briefs written by businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers that document
innovations, lessons learned, and areas of future work and action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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