Full Description
This book contributes to the empirical literature on households' participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estimates simultaneously the participation in microinsurance schemes and other financial services on household survey data from Ghana. Second, it analyzes the household's cumulative participation in microfinancial services using household survey data from Sri Lanka. Next, the study focuses on the question whether household's participation in micro life insurance in Sri Lanka is motivated by the desire to leave bequests. At last, it investigates different sequential steps of the household's microinsurance participation decision and the joint analysis of micro life and health insurance enrolment in Sri Lanka.
Contents
Contents: Participation in micro life insurance and the use of other financial services in Ghana - Microfinancial services and risk management: the perspective from Sri Lanka - Participation in micro life insurance: the role of bequest motives in Sri Lanka - Microfinance, micro life and health insurance enrolment of the poor in Sri Lanka.
