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Rising Temperatures, Rising Inequalities: How a New Insurance Protects India’s Poorest Women

BHUBANESWAR/AHMEDABAD, India, Jun 26 (IPS) – As Deviben Dhaundhaliya, 45, a streetside seller of artificial jewelry, waits for her husband Devabhai to arrive and help her shift their iron-frame mobile ‘shop’ to the Bhadra Fort open-air marketplace in Ahmedabad city, she tells of how “as heat increased, my wares started melting under the direct exposure to the sun, or they got discolored.”

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