Without adverse selection and moral hazards, weather index-based insurance (WII) has shown tremendous potential for replacing traditional crop insurance, since the World Bank implemented a Development Marketplace Contract and put WII into practice in Nicaragua, Morocco, Tunisia, and Ethiopia (Skees 2001, 2008; Stoppa and Hess 2003; Hess and Syroka 2005; Antón et al. 2013).
C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 OBITUARIES A31 EDITORIAL A32-33 EDr.orials: DeanDeandand the pickup truck; challenging a mendacious abortion ban; after the New York election; Verlyn Klinkenborg on the moral dimension of weather in an age of forecasts from everywhere.
Morals change with the weather," he explains.
I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority.' Naomi Jaffe, another Weather person who has gone on to forge a quieter but still committed life as an anti-racism activist in Albany, New York, also expresses regret, albeit tempered by the caveat: 'We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence was itself a form of violence.' Not so Chesa's adoptive parents.
According to a Canadian Press report, "One civic official said it was probably the weight of the moral controversy, rather than the weather, which broke Kwakiutl′s back".
Later she jokes that her parents thought that "hot weather encouraged loose morals amongst young people".
We might also ask what, starting here and now, we can do to salvage the "moral imperative" of snow (and cold weather) for the future.
Furthermore, strategy invariably rests on assumptions of many kinds about what is lawful or moral, about what technology can achieve, about conditions of weather and geography that are unstated or even subconscious.
Implicit in this story is a radical and rather insane notion that there is a moral cause-and-effect to everything, even bad weather.
Weather has turned into one of the moral dimensions in which we live.
