moral hazard
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From risk to resilience: Increasing insurance uptake among farmers in rural Uganda
The majority of households in rural Uganda are involved in agriculture but have no insurance against crop failure or price shocks. Evidence suggests that awareness programmes that help farmers understand potential negative outcomes—perhaps through si...
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Testing financial innovations: Increasing loan repayment using digital collateral
An experiment in Uganda shows that securing a loan with digital collateral can lead to positive benefits for both borrower and lender
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The long debate on sharecropping and productivity
Increasing the tenant’s share in output encourages profitable risk-taking, in addition to large effects on input levels
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The effects of monitoring technologies on contracts, employee behaviour, and firms: Evidence from Kenya
Monitoring technologies can improve firm performance, and importantly not at the expense of workers or society