with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using … probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka, conditional on household's microfinance institution enrolment. Further …. We find that the household's experience of a family related shock is positively associated with the participation in …

Present booming of microfinance has started with slow pace three decades ago. It is one of the many mechanisms for … poverty eradication and providing livelihoods for the vulnerable sections of the society. Microfinance is seen as provision of … start of the twenty first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively. In India …

This study, conducted in India in 2005, provides evidence on Willingness to pay (WTP), gathered through a …