can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

This paper analyses the impact of insurance sector development on economic growth based on a sample that includes 14 … employed and led to the following conclusions: (1) life insurance has no significant effect on economic growth in both panel … and individual countries, (2) non-life insurance positively affects economic growth in both panel and individual countries …