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This policy brief analyzes two public rural insurance programs in Brazil: the Agricultural Activity Guarantee Program (PROAGRO) and the Rural Insurance Premium Subsidy Program (PSR). The authors find that PROAGRO's design, where the government bears the risk while financial institutions operate the program, creates severe information asymmetries and moral hazard, leading to higher claim rates and increasing costs for the National Treasury. In contrast, the PSR, where private insurers bear the risk, shows greater efficiency and growth, though it struggles to reach small producers. The report recommends migrating resources from PROAGRO to the PSR, improving the training of claims adjusters, and adopting parametric insurance to reduce fraud and monitoring costs.

This report provides an economic assessment of climate change impacts in Uganda, analyzing five national sectors and five local case studies. It estimates that the cost of inaction between 2010 and 2050 ranges from US$273 billion to US$437 billion, primarily affecting the water and energy sectors. The study argues that while adaptation costs are high, they are significantly lower than the potential damages, and that economic growth is essential to provide the resources necessary for resilience.

This report provides an economic assessment of climate change impacts on Uganda's infrastructure sector, focusing on the costs of increasing resilience and the damages caused by extreme weather events. It estimates the additional costs for new construction and maintenance across residential, public, and transport infrastructure through 2050, while modeling the financial risks of floods and droughts based on historical data and future GDP projections.

This report documents a regional workshop held in Maputo, Mozambique, on April 24-25, 2007, focused on sharing early lessons from the implementation of climate change adaptation projects in south-eastern Africa. The event brought together practitioners, government officials, and researchers to discuss coping strategies for extreme events, health impacts, and energy and natural resource vulnerabilities, while exploring tools for project design and financing mechanisms.

This fact sheet provides an economic assessment of climate change impacts on infrastructure in Uganda, estimating the costs required to improve resilience and the potential financial damages from extreme weather events through 2050.

This briefing note provides an economic assessment of climate change impacts on Uganda's infrastructure, estimating the costs required to improve resilience and the potential financial damages from extreme weather events through 2050.

This document is an action list from the Tenth Meeting of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Executive Council, held on December 2-3, 1999, in Caracas, Venezuela. It details administrative approvals, funding decisions for scientific projects, and strategic planning for the institute's future development.

This briefing documents the actions and decisions made during the tenth meeting of the Executive Council (EC) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), held from December 2 to 3, 1999, in Caracas, Venezuela.