From Participation To Repurchase: Low Income Households And Micro‐insurance
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- Renuka Sane & Susan Thomas, 2017. "From Participation To Repurchase: Low Income Households And Micro-Insurance," Working Papers id:11696, eSocialSciences.
- Renuka Sane & Susan Thomas, 2016. "From participation to repurchase: Low-income households and micro-insurance," Working Papers id:11133, eSocialSciences.
- Renuka Sane & Susan Thomas, 2016. "From participation to repurchase: Low income households and micro-insurance," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2016-019, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
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- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
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