Tag: climate change adaptation

Can microinsurance protect the poor?

Feb 21, 2011

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Environment, Microenterprise, Poverty

Guardian: Can microinsurance protect the poor? Low-cost insurance that covers the lives, health and property of the poor could provide protection against natural disasters. … Microinsurance, low-cost insurance policies that cover the lives, health, crops and property of the most vulnerable, are being seen as a central way of providing social protection to the increasing…
Climate Change and the Wealth of Nations

Sep 1, 2010

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mwkruse

in Environment, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

NYT Economix: Climate Change and the Wealth of Nations The pressing needs of a great recession crowd out interest in global warming. The environmental economists Matthew Kahn and Matthew Kotchen have found that a higher state unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in Google searches for the term “global warming” and a lower “probability…