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Development banks boost use of weather derivatives

1 July 2008

The World Bank is to begin offering weather derivatives as part of a strategy to reduce the impact of drought in developing countries, while the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is targeting Thai farmers for weather deals.

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