This paper provides guidance for implementing Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) vehicle insurance, which directly incorporates mileage as a rate factor. It describes PAYD pricing options, discusses PAYD benefits and costs, describes regulatory reforms, evaluates various objections to PAYD, and provides specific recommendations for PAYD implementation. Various data sources indicate that crash costs increase with annual vehicle mileage. As a result, PAYD increases actuarial accuracy (premiums better reflect a vehicle

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This book attempts to partially fill the void by systematically assessing health financing reforms in nine low- and middle-income countries that have demonstrated good performance in expanding their populations

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The uneven economic development undergone by Latin America throughout the last decades has had an impact on its political and social dynamics. Governments in the region have been looking for strategies to cope with the unstable economy and sharp inflation rates, trying to protect their most vulnerable population from the worst economic shocks. As a

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