annuities which permit differing risk sharing arrangements among insurance companies, the annuity buyers, and government. Need … be addressed are the longevity and inflation risks, along with provisions for survivors’ benefits. The paper discusses … pros and cons of lump sum, a phased withdrawal, and annuities as options during the payout phase. It emphasizes that for …

Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to health services; care-seeking for …

conceptualised their struggle and survival. [Occasional Paper No. 16] …

fare even worse, because of its low levels of achievement on accepted national goals for the survival, development and …

unobservable risk, Ghatak (1999, 2000) shows that group-based, joint liability contracts price for risk more accurately than … individual contracts, provided that borrowers match homogeneously by risk-type. This more accurate risk-pricing can attract safe …

wage is not observed, contracts feature over-employment. Under separating equilibrium the low type is over-employed, and …

need to levy taxes to fulfill debt contracts incurred in this manner for fear of legal retribution and loss of reputation … with investors if they fail to repay. And in the case of natural resource contracts, citizens continue to suffer from the … sweetheart contracts that deprive the government of deserved revenues. …