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This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …
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In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and non-life insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …
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In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and nonlife insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …
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This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …
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Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how increasing information sharing bureaus affect financial access. For this reason, we have employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive Quantile Regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing bureaus are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668525
In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and nonlife insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389211
This special section aims to advance scholarship on well-being and happiness in Africa. The section covers theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty, happiness and well-being in Africa.
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