Can micro health insurance reduce poverty? : evidence from Bangladesh

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<dc:creator>Hamid, Syed Abdul</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Roberts, Jennifer</dc:creator>
<dc:creator>Mosley, Paul</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010</dc:date>
<dc:description xml:lang="es">Sumario: This paper examines the impact of microhealth insurance  on poverty redution in rural areas of Bangladesh. The research is based on household level primary data collected from the operating areas of the Grameen Bank during 2006. A number of outcome measures relating to poverty status are considered; these include household income, stability of household via food sufficiency and ownership of non-land assets, and also the probability of being above or below the poverty line. The results show that micro health insurance has a positive association with all of these indicators, and this is statistically significant and quantitatively important for food sufficiency</dc:description>
<dc:identifier>https://documentacion.fundacionmapfre.org/documentacion/publico/es/bib/122782.do</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:publisher>Department of Economics, University of Sheffields</dc:publisher>
<dc:rights xml:lang="es">InC - http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Microseguros</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Productos de seguros</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Pobreza</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Protección social</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Zonas rurales</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Seguro de salud</dc:subject>
<dc:subject xml:lang="es">Bangladesh</dc:subject>
<dc:type xml:lang="es">Books</dc:type>
<dc:title xml:lang="es">Can micro health insurance reduce poverty? : evidence from Bangladesh</dc:title>
<dc:relation xml:lang="es">Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series. 2010001</dc:relation>
<dc:coverage xml:lang="es">Bangladesh</dc:coverage>
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