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The role of insurance and its regulation in development : Sudan and Tanzania [PDF]
This thesis examines the experiences of Sudan and Tanzania in attempting to control their respective insurance industries to serve their economic development.
El-Hassan, Mirghani Mohmed
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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, 2015 NIK has evaluated the activities of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) and tax offices with regard to collecting social insurance liabilities (and liabilities related to the Labour Fund, the Fund for Employees’ Guaranteed Benefits, the Fund for ...
Biczyk, Tomasz
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Acta Fisiátrica, 2011 The main objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of insured workers who participated in the vocational rehabilitation program from the INSS (National Institute of Social Security) in Porto Alegre/RS. Method: We selected all of the insured workers participating in the vocational rehabilitation process during the year of 2008 in Porto ...
Jerri Estevan Vacaro +1 more
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, 2023 Wydział Nauk Politycznych i DziennikarstwaDysertacja ma układ chronologiczny i składa się z sześciu rozdziałów. W pierwszym rozdziale, zatytułowanym „Miejsce i rola ubezpieczeń społecznych w polityce społecznej państwa polskiego” przedstawiłam koncepcje ...
Lewandowska, Magdalena
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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VibrationTo quantify the effect of frequency-range-specific hand–arm vibration (FRS-HAV) exposure on the risk of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb (UMSDs), we performed an analysis among the study sample of the German Hand–Arm Vibration Study. In total,
Yi Sun +6 more
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Serum alpha-tocopherol and the risk of cancer
, 1988 Seerumin alfatokoferolipitoisuuden yhteys syövän myöhempään ilmaantuvuuteen selvitettiin epidemiologisessa seurantatutkimuksessa. Aineistoon kuului 36 265 eri puolilla Suomea asuvaa 15–99-vuotiasta miestä ja naista. Keskimäärin kahdeksan vuotta kestäneen
Knekt, P
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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