A report exploring alternative methods of extending coverage to the self-employed and to agricultural and domestic employees was recently published by the Division of Tax Research of the Treasury Department? Because of the pertinence of its subject, the Bulletin is reproducing here the introductory section of the report. 1 The Extension of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance to Agricultural and Dom...

This note provides two results pertaining to the pricing of agricultural revenue insurance contracts under joint price and yield risk. First, a weakening of the concordance ordering is used to sign the effect of greater dependence between the multiplicative risks (price and yield) on the expected indemnity payment. Second, sufficient conditions are found when the premium rate for revenue insura...

utilization of effective instruments in support of and to provide economic safety for active population in the agricultural sector and towards an increase in production is an indispensable necessity. agricultural crop insurance is one of these instruments. the purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting an adoption of agricultural crops’ insurance among apple growers in semiro...

Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to women farmers who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change risk and have low adaptive ...

two models are commonly made use to explain the behavior of insurance industries, namely: risk-pooling and the risk-absorbing models. neither of the two models provides an acceptable definition of insurance output in the economies experiencing high inflation rate. to address the deficiencies of the present models, an alternative was proposed in the current study as based on the theory of in...

This paper uses Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to formulate strategies prevent moral hazard acts in agricultural insurance Indonesia. Agricultural takes place, mainly, through Rice Crop Insurance and Cattle Insurance. Generally, the that can be performed minimize practice programs are: developing capacity of human resources, improving field communication, enforcing penalties, institutional stre...

Agriculture is a form of processing biological natural resources with the help technology, capital, labor, and management. In Indonesia, agriculture main source livelihood in some areas, one which Cibungur village, Parungponteng sub-district, Tasikmalaya district, West Java. With as all these are not spared from risks that can damage agricultural sector. occur, there comes solution to this prob...