Extending Insurance?: Funeral Associations in Ethiopia and Tanzania.

This paper studies the development of indigenous insurance institutions set up to help cover the high costs of funerals, using evidence from rural areas in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Many of these institutions tend to co-exist within the same community and are based on well-defined rules and regulations...

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Main Authors: Dercon, S, Bold, T, Weerdt, J, Pankhurst, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: OECD Development Centre 2004