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payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm … finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …
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influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …
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Als Newcomer im Mikrofinanzmarkt werden Mikroversicherungen derzeit als vielversprechende Möglichkeit der sozialen Sicherung und Armutsreduzierung in Entwicklungsländern gehandelt. Es besteht die Hoffnung, weite Teile der Bevölkerung, denen ein Zugang zu staatlichem Sozialversicherungsschutz...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among low-income people in southern … types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have … come about. The evidence indicates that (micro)insurance is mostly positively perceived by the participants of the focus …
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irregular cash flows of poor households, who have been excluded in the commercial insurance system for a variety of reasons … households. The most prominent forms of microinsurance are life insurance and health insurance (carried out as part of an overall … health care package that links the health insurance to a health facility), which have been designed to be responsive to the …
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This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among lowincome people in southern … types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have … come about. The evidence indicates that (micro)insurance is mostly positively perceived by the participants of the focus …
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