Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance: Northern Kenya’s HSNP

Impact of Health Insurance Inefficiency on Poverty among Iranian Households

  مقدمه: یکی از اهداف اصلی سیاست‌گذاران و برنامه‌ریزان سلامت در هر کشوری تأمین امنیت مالی افراد در برابر بیماری‌هایی است که منجر به پرداخت‌های مالی کمرشکن، فقر و پیامدهای آن می‌شود. هزینه‌های بالای سلامت بیانگر آن است که به جای تأمین این هزینه‌ها توسط مراکز بیمه، بخش عمده هزینه‌های سلامت بر خانوارها تحمیل شده است. علاوه بر آن، خانوارهای دارای پوشش بیمه نیز به دلایلی مانند دسترسی ناکافی به مراکز...

Fuzzy Multidimensional Poverty Index

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is a novel measure of poverty that is being used by United Nations Development Programme. The MPI is the answer to the call for a multidimensional view of poverty (Sen and Anand, 1997). It evaluates poverty at the individual level, with poor people being those who are deprived in multiple dimensions of well-being, and also the extent of poverty by assessing ...

Multidimensional Poverty Index

The MPI assesses the nature and intensity of poverty at the individual level, with poor people being those who are multiply deprived and the extent of their poverty being measured by the extent of their deprivations. The MPI creates a vivid picture of people living in poverty within and across countries, regions and the world. It is the first international measure of its kind, and offers an ess...

Asset Insurance Markets and Chronic Poverty

This paper uses numerical dynamic stochastic programming methods to show that an insurance market can reduce the long-term extent and depth of poverty in a stylized, risk-prone rural region. This impact operates through both an ex post vulnerability reduction effect and an ex ante investment incentive effect. The result is not only lower poverty, but also substantial savings in public cash tran...

Health, Poverty and Poverty Dynamics in Africa