-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy … voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative initiatives are needed. Bundling health insurance to microcredit is an option that we … compulsory micro-health insurance scheme integrated into a micro-loan system for informal micro-entrepreneurs in Ouagadougou …

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …