Introduction This research article reports on factors influencing initial voluntary uptake of
community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes in low-and middle-income countries …

Microinsurance has recently received much attention as a promising tool to protect poor
individuals from important shocks. Yet, voluntary demand from people has been low …

Rwanda is the country with the highest enrolment in health insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Pivotal in setting Rwanda on the path to universal health coverage (UHC) is the community …

Health financing policies are marked by confusion between policy tools and policy
objectives, especially in low and middle income countries. This paper attempts to address …

Community-based health insurance is an emerging and promising concept, which
addresses health care challenges faced in particular by the rural poor. The aim of this paper …

We studied the potential of community‐based health insurance (CHI) to contribute to the
performance of health financing systems. The international empirical evidence is analysed …

The definitive account of the history of poverty finance'-Susanne Soederberg Finance,
mobile and digital technologies-or'fintech'-are being heralded in the world of development …

Objective This paper identifies, ranks and compares perceptions of insured and uninsured
households in Ghana on health care providers (quality of care, service delivery adequacy …

Across the world, welfare states are under challenge (or were never developed extensively
in the first place) while non-state actors increasingly provide public goods and basic welfare …

O ne of the key global problems facing social security today is the fact that more than half of
the world's population is excluded from any type of statutory social security protection. Those …