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Climate change and financial adaptation in Africa. Investigating the impact of climate change on the robustness of index-based microinsurance in Malawi

✍ Scribed by Stefan Hochrainer; Reinhard Mechler; Georg Pflug

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 467 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1381-2386
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-008-9162-5

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