China’s agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China’s policy is to encourage the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China ’s farms growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether large farms in China have emerged or if farms remain small. To meet this goal, we systematically do...

Agriculture sector faces natural, social and economic risks resulting from its production structure. One of the strategies to be used transfer such is agricultural insurance. It was aimed in present study estimate demand farmers for cattle insurance (CI) determine effective factors which can increase share premium CI total TRA1 Region. Data were obtained 122 farms determined using proportional ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been advocated by international development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a mechanism that helps mobilize resources for health, pool risk, and provide more access to health care services for the poor. Hence Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to help promote ac...

the bias against mangrove areas in siting fish farms prompted a comparison of the cost structure and yield performance in upland and mangrove locations. tools utilized included descriptive statistics, budgetary and cash flow analyses and profitability ratios. empirical results revealed that substantial revenue could be realized from both farms. while the upland farms yielded average gross reven...

BACKGROUND Lack of insurance has been shown to lead to delays in seeking care as well as fewer preventive medicine visits and poorer overall health status. PURPOSE To investigate the effects of insurance status on the timing and treatment of patients with bucket-handle meniscus tears. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Charts from 2004 to 2013 were retrospectively re...

In this essay, we shall make an attempt to account for the frequently observed phenomenon of insurance companies offering discounts to clients who possess a favorable record of past claims. We shall argue that such discounts provide a mechanism which enables both insurer and insured to counteract the inefficiency which arises from moral hazard. Moral hazard is an example of economic interaction...

Background Little research has focused on the economic hardship among the insured with severe illnesses and high treatment costs, in particular, the consequence of poorer insurance coverage for high-cost illnesses. Therefore, we presented the case for identifying the experiences of insured patients with severe chronic and acute illnesses. This study identified a qualitative understanding of the...