 | | The working poor need insurance to protect them from unforeseen difficulties that may disrupt their ability to make a living. Combined with other ways of managing risk, the right insurance can keep a low-income family from falling below the poverty line when faced with difficulty. Insurance changes lives for the better, but even the most common forms of insurance are scarce among the poor.
| | | Publications and Research- Making Insurance Markets Work for Farmers in India (PDF Document), Olivier Mahul and Niraj Verma, December 2010
- Financial Protection of the State against Natural Disasters: A Primer (PDF Document), Francis Ghesquiere and Olivier Mahul, World Bank,September 2010
- Government Support to Agricultural Insurance: Challenges and Options for Developing Countries (PDF Document) (Overview)
- Annex E - International Experience with Agricultural Insurance: Findings from a World Bank Survey of 65 Countries (PDF Document) (annex to the book Government Support to Agricultural Insurance: Challenges and Options for Developing Countries), Olivier Mahul and Charles Stutley, World Bank 2010
- Agricultural Feasibility Study for Nepal (PDF Document), Olivier Mahul, Charles Stutley, Henry Bagazonzya, Kirti Devkota, World Bank, 2009
- Catastrophe Risk Pricing: An Empirical Analysis (PDF Document). Morton Lane and Olivier Mahul. World Bank. November 2008.
- Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention (book) J. David Cummins and Olivier Mahul, World Bank, October 2008
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