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This paper examines the importance of financial services as risk coping mechanisms in Sri Lanka, while insurance and savings products function as ex-ante, i.e., preventive, strategies for consumption smoothing, credit is typically used as an ex-post risk coping strategy. Based on household...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138260
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the riskmanagement strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of thehousehold’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying orderedprobit models and additionally probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360580
This paper argues that the study of the demand for financial services in developing countries leaves out part of the story, if it looks at only one of the three elements of the so called finance trinity, i.e. savings products, loans, or insurances, as is largely done in the literature. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293517
This paper argues that the study of the demand for financial services in developing countries leaves out part of the story, if it looks at only one of the three elements of the so called finance trinity, i.e. savings products, loans, or insurances, as is largely done in the literature. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908703
This paper argues that the study of the demand for financial services in developing countries leaves out part of the story, if it looks at only one of the three elements of the so called finance trinity, i.e. savings products, loans, or insurances, as is largely done in the literature. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688706
Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated … micro health insurance schemes under study. There is strong evidence that microinsurance has not yet succeeded in … microinsurance participation. …
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Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated … micro health insurance schemes under study. There is strong evidence that microinsurance has not yet succeeded in … microinsurance participation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788730