Climate change and financial adaptation in Africa. Investigating the impact of climate change on the robustness of index-based microinsurance in Malawi
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Adaptation; Drought; Agricultural risks; Risk management; Microinsurance; Climate insurance; Catastrophe modeling;All these keywords.
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