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insurance schemes and a ?Green Card? program for the poor, each with distinct benefits packages and access rules. Both the …) insurance coverage increased from 64 to 98 percent between 2002 and 2012; (ii) the share of pregnant women having four antenatal …
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insurance schemes and a ?Green Card? program for the poor, each with distinct benefits packages and access rules. Both the …) insurance coverage increased from 64 to 98 percent between 2002 and 2012; (ii) the share of pregnant women having four antenatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212023
The 2012 Article IV Consultation with France discusses the financial and economic conditions of the country. Although France weathered the 2008 financial and subsequent euro area crises relatively well compared with other advanced countries, its recovery has been sluggish. France has become a...
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We investigate how insurance affects agents’ decisions when being faced by endogenous, climate-driven extreme events …. This is not only important in order to understand how the possibility of insurance augments mitigation and saving decisions …, but it also improves our understanding of how insurance should be provided. Since there are no studies as of now that rely …
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The focus of this study is to empirically assess insurance market activities in Nigeria with the view to determining … its impact on economic growth. The period of study was 1970- 2008, the study made use of insurance density measures … (premium per capita) as a measure for insurance market activity and real GDP for economic growth. It also employed control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553462
The focus of this study is to empirically assess insurance market activities in Nigeria with the view to determining … its impact on economic growth. The period of study was 1970- 2008, the study made use of insurance density measures … (premium per capita) as a measure for insurance market activity and real GDP for economic growth. It also employed control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839185
Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in...
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Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic … banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …
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Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic … banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082767