… funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper
presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance … funeral insurance …

A funeral is a costly occasion. This paper studies indigenous insurance institutions developed
to cope with the high costs of funerals, based on evidence from rural areas in Tanzania …

… insurance industry that profitably sells insurance to low-income consumers (microinsurance).
This article is based on a case study of the informal funeral insurance … considerable funeral …

… 1.1 Much of the funeral insurance business1 in South Africa, many … Funeral insurance fulfils
an unmistakable need and there are … ‘But it must not be forgotten that funeral business is an …

… be preferred over standard life insurance even though the latter is … funeral insurance differs
from life insurance in that there is a constraint on how the payout is spent. Funeral insurance …

… an African context where funeral insurance policies are sold … monopolistic insurer to supply
funeral insurance policies. We … Applicants for insurance are identical except for their mortality…

… insurance consumption but not on funeral insurance consumption. Unemployment had a
negative effect on funeral insurance … funeral insurance penetration. This was in contrast to life …

… In the United States, this type of contract is called a prepaid funeral, not funeral insurance. …
insurance, I was told that the contracts insured against any inflation in the price of a funeral …

… Discusses how the benefit can be in the form of a funeral service, a cash benefit … a funeral,
or a combination of the two. Outside of credit life insurance, argues that the funeral insurance …

… Funeral insurance is an example of a practice that has … by the threat of a pauper's funeral.
Largely accessed by the poor … of a pauper's funeral into the novel metric of a ‘funeral benefit’. …