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Analiza aspectos generales de los servicios de seguros, el mercado de seguros en América Latina, la liberalización de los servicios de seguros, las negociaciones en la Ronda Uruguay y recomendaciones para el diseño de una estrategia de negociación para los países en desarrollo.


Martínez Barros, GuillermoEl comercio internacional de servicios de seguros

Analiza las posibilidades de integración y cooperación regional del sector servicios en tres áreas: turismo, construcción y seguros, para lo cual presenta en cada caso un breve diagnóstico del sector y las necesidades, instrumentos, beneficios y costos de dicha integración.


Highlights of participants comments from an Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) policy workshop held 9 June 2015 at ILRI in Nairobi.


International Livestock Research Institute[Index-Based Livestock Insurance policy workshop: Comments from participants]Index-Based Livestock Insurance policy workshop: Comments from participants

International Livestock Research Institute[Index Based Livestock Insurance: Index announcement for March 2013]Index Based Livestock Insurance: Index announcement for March 2013

Con el presente trabajo se pretende contribuir al debate nacional ya desarrollado en Costa Rica y el que acompañará al proceso de ratificación legislativa del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre los Estados Unidos, República Dominicana y Centroamérica (CAFTA, por sus siglas en inglés).Su punto de ...


Chaves, Jorge ArturoEl TLC Centroamérica-Estados Unidos: elementos de debate de gremios y sociedad civil en Costa Rica

Mude, Andrew G.[The role of mobile technologies in promoting sustainable delivery of livestock insurance in the East African Drylands: Toward sustainable Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for pastoralists]The role of mobile technologies in promoting sustainable delivery of livestock insurance in the East African Drylands: Toward sustainable Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for pastoralists

Index-Based Livestock Insurance has emerged as a promising market-based solution for insuring livestock against drought-related mortality. The objective of this work is to develop an explicit spatial econometric framework to estimate insurable indexes that can be integrated within a general insur...


Woodard, J.D.Shee, ApurbaMude, Andrew G.[A spatial econometric approach to designing and rating scalable index insurance in the presence of missing data]A spatial econometric approach to designing and rating scalable index insurance in the presence of missing data

We use data from 500 households in Samburu County (Kenya) to explore how natural environment and market accessibility affect coping and adaptation strategies of pastoralists. In particular, we ask whether households accumulate livestock wealth and invest in structural and cognitive social capital...


Karanja Ng'ang'a, StanleyBulte, E.H.Giller, Ken E.Ndiwa, Nicholas N.Kifugo, S.C.McIntire, John M.Herrero, Mario T.Rufino, Mariana C.[Livestock wealth and social capital as insurance against climate risk: A case study of Samburu County in Kenya]Livestock wealth and social capital as insurance against climate risk: A case study of Samburu County in Kenya

Climate change will affect the livelihoods of pastoralists in arid and semi-arid lands. Using data on agro-pastoral households from northern Kenya, we explore whether migration of household members enhances adoption of agricultural innovations that aim to provide protection against weather shocks...


Karanja Ng'ang'a, StanleyBulte, E.H.Giller, Ken E.McIntire, John M.Rufino, Mariana C.[Migration and self-protection against climate change: A case study of samburu county, Kenya]Migration and self-protection against climate change: A case study of samburu county, Kenya

Some 20 million livestock keepers in the Horn of Africa are threatened by increasingly frequent and severe droughts. These have eroded the pastoralists’ adaptive capacity and resilience to such an extent that almost every drought now results in a humanitarian crisis. A CTA-led project, Enhancing ...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation[CLI-MARK: Weather forecasts, insurance and markets]CLI-MARK: Weather forecasts, insurance and markets

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