payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm … finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …

This paper is an attempt to understand the factors behind low contract renewal rates frequently observed in insurance … that deficient information about the insurance product and the functioning of the scheme, and poor understanding of the … insurance concept are the major causes of the low contract renewal rate among households which had previously enrolled into the …

for the financial inclusion of the poor. This study examined the influence of insurance literacy and demographics on the … likely hood of having a micro-insurance policy. The survey was conducted in the National Capital Region (NCR), India. Micro-insurance … analysis. Results show that insurance literacy score, income, employment and education increased the likely hood of owning an …

calamities and riots, etc. Micro insurance is the protection of such low-income people against specific perils in exchange for … regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the risk involved. Micro insurance is recognized as the … terrain where innovation in insurance can be and indeed is being experimented. The strongest drive to understand more about …