Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

Is it interesting a 2 billion euro insurance market for the “old†Europe? “Not very much†one may say considering … this figure represents no more than 16% of the insurance turn-over in the case of the most recent entry in the Romanian … today, but very much about tomorrow. By the end of 2007 it was obvious that the Romanian insurance market is far from …

-sharing institutional evolution. Particularly, through a comparative study of marine insurance development in China and Europe, we address a … wide set of research questions concerning why China and Europe relied on different social organizations for risk sharing. …