Dr. David  Mark Dror
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Dr. David Mark Dror

Chairman & Managing Director
Micro Insurance Academy,India


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Economics and Management Science from Claude Bernard University Lyon, France

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Area of Interest:

Economics
100%
Health Economics
62%
Institutional Economics
90%
Financial Economics
75%
Micro Finance
55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
0
Chapters
0
Articles
44
Abstracts
0

Selected Publications

  1. Dror, D.M., A.u Majumdar and A. Chakraborty, 2018. The effect of consensus on demand for voluntary micro health insurance in rural India. Risk Manage. Healthcare Policy, 11: 139-158.
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  2. Raza, W.A., E.V. de Poel, P. Panda, D. Dror and A. Bedi, 2016. Healthcare seeking behaviour among self-help group households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. BMC Health Serv. Res. Vol. 16. 10.1186/s12913-015-1254-9.
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  3. Panda, P., A. Chakraborty and D. Dror, 2016. Mobilizing community-based health insurance to enhance awareness & prevention of airborne, vector-borne & waterborne diseases in rural India. Indian J. Med. Res. Vol. 142. 10.4103/0971-5916.164235.
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  4. Jangle, N., M. Mehra and D.M. Dror, 2016. Climate cost of cultivation : A new crop index method to quantify farmers’ cost of climate change exemplified in rural India. Geneva Pap. Risk Insur. Issues Pract., 41: 280-306.
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  5. Dror, D.M., S.A.S. Hossain, A. Majumdar, T.L.P. Koehlmoos, D. John and P.K. Panda, 2016. What factors affect voluntary uptake of community-based health insurance schemes in low- and middle-income countries? a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, Vol. 11. 10.1371/journal.pone.0160479.
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  6. Dror, D.M., 2016. Guest editorial. Geneva Pap. Risk Insur Issues Pract., 41: 179-183.
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  7. Sharma, B., N. Jangle, N. Bhatt and D.M. Dror, 2015. Can climate change cause groundwater scarcity? An estimate for Bihar. Int. J. Climatol. 35: 4066-4078.
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  8. Panda, P., A. Chakraborty, D.M. Dror and A.S. Bedi, 2014. Enrolment in community-based health insurance schemes in rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India Health Policy Plann., 29: 960-974.
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  9. Dror, D.M., P. Panda, C. May, A. Majumdar and R. Koren, 2014. One for all and all for one" : Consensus-building within communities in rural India on their health microinsurance package. Risk Manage. Healthcare Policy, 2014: 139-153.
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  10. Dror, D.M., A. Majumdar, P. Panda, D. John and R. Koren, 2014. Implementing a participatory model of micro health insurance among rural poor with evidence from Nepal. Geneva Pap. Risk Insur. Issues Pract., 39: 280-303.
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  11. Dror, D.M., 2014. Guest editorial. Geneva Pap. Risk Insur. Issues Pract., 39: 197-200.
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  12. Dror, D.M. and L.A. Firth, 2014. The demand for (micro) health insurance in the informal sector. Geneva Pap. Risk Insur. Issues Pract., 39: 693-711.
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  13. Kyamuhangire, W., A. Lubowa, A. Kaaya, J. Kikafunda and P.W.J. Harvey et al., 2013. The importance of using food and nutrient intake data to identify appropriate vehicles and estimate potential benefits of food fortification in uganda. Food Nutr. Bull., 34: 131-142.
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  14. Binnendijk, E., D.M. Dror, E. Gerelle and R. Koren, 2013. Estimating Willingness-to-Pay for health insurance among rural poor in India by reference to Engels law. Social Sci. Med., 76: 67-73.
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  15. Dror, D. and S. Vellakkal, 2012. Is RSBY India′s platform to implementing universal hospital insurance? Indian J. Med. Res. Vol. 135. 10.4103/0971-5916.93425.
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  16. Binnendijk, E., R. Koren and D.M. Dror, 2012. Hardship financing of healthcare among rural poor in Orissa, India. BMC Health Serv. Res. Vol. 12. 10.1186/1472-6963-12-23.
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  17. Binnendijk, E., R. Koren and D.M. Dror, 2012. Can the rural poor in India afford to treat non-communicable diseases. Trop. Med. Int. Health, 17: 1376-1385.
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  18. Binnendijk, E., M. Gautham, R. Koren and D.M. Dror, 2012. Illness Mapping: A time and cost effective method to estimate healthcare data needed to establish community-based health insurance. BMC Med. Res. Methodol. Vol. 12. 10.1186/1471-2288-12-153.
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  19. Dror, D., E. Binnendijk, M. Gautham and R. Koren, 2011. First we go to the small doctor: First contact for curative health care sought by rural communities in Andhra Pradesh & Orissa, India. Indian J. Med. Res. Vol. 134. 10.4103/0971-5916.90987.
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  20. Doyle, C., P. Panda, E.V. de Poel, R. Radermacher and D.M. Dror, 2011. Reconciling research and implementation in micro health insurance experiments in India: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, Vol. 12. 10.1186/1745-6215-12-224.
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  21. Dror, D.M., R. Radermacher, S.B. Khadilkar, P. Schout, François-Xavier Hay, A. Singh and R. Koren, 2009. Microinsurance: Innovations In Low-Cost Health Insurance. Health Affairs., 28: 1788-1798.
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  22. Dror, D.M., R. Radermacher and R. Koren, 2007. Willingness to pay for health insurance among rural and poor persons: Field evidence from seven micro health insurance units in India. Health Policy, 82: 12-27.
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  23. Dror, D.M., R. Koren, A. Ost, E. Binnendijk, S. Vellakkal and M. Danis, 2007. Health insurance benefit packages prioritized by low-income clients in India: Three criteria to estimate effectiveness of choice. Social Sci. Med., 64: 884-896.
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  24. Dror, D.M. and J. Armstrong, 2006. Do micro health insurance units need capital or reinsurance? a simulated exercise to examine different alternatives. Geneva Pap. Risk Insu.r Issues Pract., 31: 739-761.
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