In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and non-life insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …

The paper discusses on role of insurance industries in economic development of Nepal and analyses its contribution in … Nepalese economy. The paper is prepared based on secondary data. Insurance, lately recognized its activities by UNCTAD since … 1964 however, the contribution of insurance is not less than banks and other financial institutions. Insurance shares the …

In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and nonlife insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …

Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for … catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve … coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using smartphone pictures of insured plots, taken by farmers themselves, to minimize …

Insurance use and economic growth in Latin America. Some panel data evidence …

market based insurance mechanisms. We find some empirical support for this conjecture in that the volatility of consumption …

This paper explores the impacts of traditional agricultural insurance that offers protection against climatic shocks on … small-scale tobacco farmers in Colombia. We analyze the impacts of access to the insurance on household financial outcomes … natural experimental setup of the form in which the insurance was launched. We find that tobacco producers with access to the …

macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high; 36.7 percent of microentrepreneurs in … the treatment group purchased insurance. However, purchasing insurance does not change the likelihood that a business … microenterprises. However, insurance may still be of value to them to help cope with shocks when they do occur, but we are unable to …

Purpose of the article: Insurance awareness in Nigeria needs to be encouraged among entrepreneurs in order to galvanise … support for insurance penetration and density. Methodology/methods: A descriptive approach and survey design were employed. A … study aims at the relationship between insurance awareness and its acceptability among small business and medium …

The way in which insurance companies protect individuals is reflected at the level of the whole society. The more … developed a society, the better it is protected – through insurance – against the various dangers its members are exposed to …. Ethical, socially responsible behavior is not only necessary, but mandatory both in the case of insurance companies and their …