Keywords and phrases: micro-insurance, Ghana, insurance in Ghana, probit model.
Received: February 15, 2022; Revised: April 20, 2022; Accepted: April 27, 2022; Published: November 26, 2022
How to cite this article: Godwin Debrah, Dennis Arku, Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu and Florence Owusu Sekyere, Model-based measure of demand for micro-insurance by households and small enterprises in Ghana, Advances and Applications in Statistics 83 (2022), 61-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361722086
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