Financial Innovation For Famine Prevention Christopher B. Barrett C.H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Dept. of Economics Trustee Council.

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Financial Innovation For Famine Prevention Christopher B. Barrett C.H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Dept. of Economics Trustee Council Annual Meetings October 27, 2012

Droughts and Humanitarian Emergencies in East Africa Catastrophic herd loss risk due to major droughts appear the primary cause of pastoralists falling into poverty traps. If other factors conspire, famine can result (e.g., Somalia 2011). Potentially aggravated by increasing drought frequency in this region.

Standard Responses to Drought Standard responses to major drought shocks: 1)Post-drought herd restocking 2) Food aid Key Problems: -Slow -Targeting challenges -Expensive (in part, because it’s slow and hard to target well) -Food aid can reinforce sedentarization/foster dependency -Core issue: Facilitate recovery from shocks … finance can help!

Alternative Responses: Insurance? Commercially sustainable insurance can: Prevent downward slide of vulnerable populations Crowd-in investment and accumulation by the poor Induce financial deepening by crowding-in credit Let us focus humanitarian resources on the needy But can insurance be sustainably offered in these areas? Conventional (individual) insurance unlikely to work (and hasn’t worked), especially in small-scale agro-pastoral sector: Very high transactions costs, esp. w/little financial intermediation among pastoralists Moral hazard/adverse selection Small market for covering fixed costs of product

The Potential of Index Insurance Index insurance is a promising variation on traditional insurance: -Do not insure individual losses. -Instead insure some “index” measure that is strongly correlated with individual losses. (Examples: rainfall, remotely sensed vegetation index, area average yield, area average herd mortality loss). Index needs to be: objectively verifiable available at low cost in real time not manipulable by either party to the contract

The Potential of Index Insurance Index insurance can obviate the problems that make individual insurance unprofitable for small, remote clients: - No transactions costs of measuring individual losses - Preserves effort incentives (no moral hazard) - Adverse selection does not matter as payouts do not depend on the riskiness of those who buy the insurance Index insurance can, in principle, provide a timely, financially sustainable safety net against catastrophic drought shocks: - individual (retail) products - agency/group (wholesale) products Could also accelerate herd recovery, alter herd dynamics, crowd in investment and avert system collapse if drought frequency grows!

Example: Pre-finance disaster response Current stage of emergency response Goal: Use index insurance to pre-finance effective response to severe droughts Seasonal rains fail /EWS alert Assess Aid arrival Appeal months Time Appeal for insurance premiums Aid arrival (insurance payout) Seasonal rains fail /EWS alert (triggers payout) Time

The Major Challenges of Index Insurance For both wholesale and retail index insurance: 1.High quality data (reliable, timely, non-manipulable, long- term) to design/price product and to determine payouts 2.Innovation incentives for insurers/reinsurers to design and market a new product and global market to support it

The Major Challenges of Index Insurance And for retail (but not necessarily wholesale) products: 3.Minimize uncovered basis risk through product design. Is it insurance or a lottery ticket? Much turns on basis risk! 4.Establish informed effective demand, especially among a clientele with little experience with any insurance, much less a complex index-based insurance product 5.Low cost delivery mechanism for making insurance available for numerous small and medium scale producers

Example: Index-based Livestock Insurance New commercial IBLI product launched commercially as a pilot in January 2010 in northern KenyaNew commercial IBLI product launched commercially as a pilot in January 2010 in northern Kenya. ( Based on technical design developed at Cornell, refined and led in the field by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in collaboration with university and private sector partners. Worked as planned in Now scaling out to southern Ethiopia and broader areas of northern Kenya.

Conclusions Standard drought responses have had limited effectiveness. Traditional insurance not viable in pastoral areas. Index insurance, in principle, could be very effective. But major challenges exist to developing/scaling index insurance to address this problem. We are experimenting, so far successfullly, with innovative financial products to help avert famine. That’s why this is so exciting … it is both a serious research project as well as a commercial project.

IBLI appears a promising option for addressing poverty traps that arise from catastrophic drought risk Thank you for your time, interest and comments! For more information visit