In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could fill this gap since they do not face such drawbacks. However their implementation has been slow so far...

The following paper presents the results of the outcome evaluation of StartBiz; an online tool for start-ups in Switzerland. StartBiz is provided by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and allows start-ups to enroll with trade registers, VAT, social insurances and accident insurances without any addi‐ tional fees directly via the internet. The outcome evaluation was required to le...

In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rainfed and crop yield highly depends on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could fill this gap since they do not face such drawbacks. However full-scale implementation has been s...

PURPOSE Evidence-based consumer information is a prerequisite for informed decision making. So far, there are no reports on the quality of consumer information brochures on osteoporosis. In the present study we analysed brochures on osteoporosis available in Germany. METHOD All printed brochures from patient and consumer advocacy groups, physician and governmental organisations, health insura...

Abstract Crop producers face significant and increasing drought risks. We evaluate whether insurances based on globally freely available satellite-retrieved soil moisture data can reduce farms’ financial risk exposure. design farm individual index for wheat, maize rapeseed production using a case study Eastern Germany. find that the significantly decrease exposure these crops compared to situat...

Purpose The economic shock posed by the current COVID-19 outbreak brought out a worldwide public health emergency with close relationship between industrial marketing practices, level of society and its development. purpose this study is to analyse dynamics in care their impact on growth status. Design/methodology/approach To empirically investigate health, authors use data set drawn from 29 se...