This study examines the effect of Financial Consumer Protection (FCP) on banks’ competitiveness and profitability, using data from Jordanian banks for period 2013–2020. The constructs a FCP index related to customer complaints statistics, communication channels, dispute resolution, protection rights special needs people. Fixed-effect model is used as an estimator based balanced panel data. find...

BACKGROUND Protecting the poor and vulnerable against the cost of unforeseen ill health has become a global concern culminating in the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution urging member states to ensure financial protection to all citizens, especially children and women of reproductive age. Ghana provides financial protection to its citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)....

Editorials 546 Universal health coverage has been set as a possible umbrella goal for health in the post-2015 development agenda. 1 Whether it is a means to an end or an end in itself and whether it is measure-able are subjects of heated debate. 2 In this issue of the Bulletin, Kutzin argues that universal health coverage not only leads to better health and to financial protection for household...