Takaful in Pakistan and Somalia: A Comparative Study of Regulatory Evolution and Market Development
el-AqwalIslamic insurance (takaful) is practiced in both Somalia and Pakistan; however, the two countries differ markedly in their regulatory frameworks, operational models, and levels of market penetration, while also sharing certain structural similarities ...
Muhammad Akbar Khan +1 more
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Uptake of health insurance among Muslims in Nairobi county, Kenya
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 INTRODUCTION: In Kenya and the world across, health insurance has been reckoned as an important health policy that serves to protect households from the direct financial consequences of health care and meet the Sustainable Development Goal of Universal ...
Mohammed Abdi Hassan +2 more
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"National Adversity: Managing Insurance and Protection" [PDF]
This paper concerns self-insurance and self-protection that countries may implement at a national level in pursuit of their security. The distinctions self-insurance, self-protection, and market insurance were first made by Ehrlich and Becker (1972 ...
Martin McGuireb, Toshihiro Ihori
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Production Risk and Crop Insurance Effectiveness: Organic Versus Conventional Apples [PDF]
This paper empirically examines the income risks for Pacific Northwest apple growers, both conventional and organic. Current yield based apple production insurance, the Growers Yield Certification (GYC), and hypothesized revenue based insurance are also ...
Chen, Xiaomei +2 more
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Pembandingan Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan Asuransi Syariah dan Non-Syariah Terbuka di Indonesia
Jurnal Ekonomi Akuntansi dan Manajemen, 2017 This research was conducted to compare the different of financial performance between sharia and non sharia conventional insurance company listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange.
Alwan Sri Kustono
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Information Asymmetry, Insurance, and the Decision to Hospitalize [PDF]
We analyze the effects of various kinds of demand- and supply-side incentives in the context of a model in which patients and doctors must decide not only on an aggregate quantity of health services to use in treating various kinds of illness, but also ...
Pierre Thomas Léger, Åke Blomqvist
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Comparing Risk Perceptions and Risk Management in Organic and Conventional Dairy Farming: Empirical Results From Norway [PDF]
, 2004 This study was conducted to explore organic and conventional dairy farmers' perceptions of risk and risk management, and to examine relationships between farm and farmer characteristics, risk perceptions, and strategies.
Ebbesvik, Martha +4 more
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Revenue Protection for Organic Producers: Too Much or Too Little?
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012 A framework is developed to examine organic crop insurance established by the Risk Management Agency (RMA). Given that the RMA links organic and conventional crop prices, the model is calibrated to reflect both markets to illustrate the impacts that ...
Ariel Singerman +2 more
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CROP INSURANCE UNDER QUALITY UNCERTAINTY [PDF]
Quality related yield and price losses have had significant impact on producer income and risks, and in some instances exceeded yield and price losses covered by conventional insurance instruments. However, there are no effective third party quality risk
Nganje, William E. +2 more
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The Demand for Insurance: Expected Utility Theory from a Gain Perspective [PDF]
, 2001 Expected utility theory holds that the demand for insurance is a demand for certainty, because under the conventional specification of the theory, it appears as if buyers of insurance prefer certain losses to actuarially equivalent uncertain ones ...
Nyman, John A.
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