
Mame Mor Anta SyllGaston Berger University · Department of Economics
Mame Mor Anta Syll
Ph.D. in Economics
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Mame Mor Anta Syll currently works at the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis (Senegal) as a research study coordinator of a 5 years Impact Evaluation program in the field of agricultural insurance. Mame Mor does research in Development Economics and he is associated with the West African Think Tank IPAR (http://www.ipar.sn/) as a Junior Economist. He is also member of the Laboratoire D'Economie d'Orleans.
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In this work, we estimate the determinants of the renewal of weather index-based insurance contracts by Senegalese farmers who practiced rain-fed agriculture in the Senegalese groundnut during the years 2014, 2015, and 2016. Based on data on 3698 producers to whom weather index-based insurance bundled with an agricultural loan was proposed, we cond...
This work uses a contingent valuation and a factor analysis to respectively measure pastoralists' willingness to pay (WTP) and characterize their profile in the context of Senegal. Using primary data on 300 pastoralists, our results show that 50% of the respondents are ready to pay at least 3000 CFA (around 6 USD) to insure against forage shortage...
Access to financial services is challenging for small farmers in developing countries. This paper studies the demand for micro-insurance when it is bundled with micro-credit in a context of rain-fed agriculture. It presents the conditions under which linking micro-insurance with Micro-credit can be beneficial for small producers who cannot access agr...
Au Sénégal, l’assurance agricole basée sur les indices climatiques est en phase pilote depuis 2013, offrant une couverture contre les chocs dus aux déficits pluviométriques dans l’agriculture de rente et dans celle de subsistance. Avec un échantillon de 133 assurés et non-assurés, cet article effectue une évaluation contingente et une estimation de...