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The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics...
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Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by...
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This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the...
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The authors conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of two alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either...
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The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of welfare, this paper attempts to analyze why we...
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macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high; 36.7 percent of microentrepreneurs in … the treatment group purchased insurance. However, purchasing insurance does not change the likelihood that a business … microenterprises. However, insurance may still be of value to help firms cope with shocks when they do occur, but the paper is unable …
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that the insurance function plays, the mainstream economics profession has largely treated it as invisible background. This … insurance sector contributes at a basic level to inclusive economic growth and the effectiveness of the credit function. It also … utilization of the insurance function. The literature dealing with innovations designed to overcome these constraints is reviewed …
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Bancassurance is the process of using a bank's customer relationships to sell life and non-life insurance products. In … contribute to the growth and the stability that both life and non-life insurance products can bring to developing countries. The …
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This paper studies the causes of the low development of the insurance sector in the Middle East and North African (MENA …) region, particularly for long term insurance. The paper shows that life and non-life premiums, as well as assets, are very … mandatory insurance in key areas, the predominant presence of the state in some countries, gaps in regulation and supervision …
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The insurance sector can play a critical role in financial and economic development. By reducing uncertainty and the … with long investment horizons, insurance companies can contribute to the provision of long-term instruments to finance … corporate investment and housing. There is evidence of a causal relationship between insurance sector development and economic …
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