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extent to which risk transfer to insurance markets facilitates economic recovery. Our main results are that major natural …
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Insurance use and economic growth in Latin America. Some panel data evidence …
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; (6) mobilizing additional nongovernment resources via insurance (including social health insurance, and community and … private insurance); (7) increasing cost-recovery measures; and (8) increasing efficiency. The paper concludes that the chief …
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This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka, and foster a dialogue on opportunities for collaboration between the government and the private sector. It accomplishes this through a systematic collection and analysis of...
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Worldwide, the role of the insurance industry has grown in importance. A world without insurance would be much less … insurance mechanism. Therefore, insurance is an important prerequisite for stimulating economic growth. The purpose of this … study is to empirically assess the causality relationship between insurance and economic growth in 5 developed countries …
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The purpose of this working paper is to examine the impact of insurance on economic growth, which will be performed on … two levels: theoretical, presenting most important channels of influence of insurance sector on economic growth, as well … direct impact of insurance on economic growth (basic model), the research has been expanded by the variables, which can …
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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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Insurance plays an important role in the financial sector but while there is many research on the casual relationship … bank lending and economic growth is often ignored relationship insurance and economic growth. Among financial … intermediaries, insurance companies play an important role in carrying out the functions of the financial system. They play an …
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Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach. We...
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We investigate the economic impact of stochastic endogenous extreme events and insurance in a growth model. Our … analytical results and computational experiments show that i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for … insurance fairly is preferable to an insurance industry which provides insurance with an overhead. …
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