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December 6, 2010
Explaining insurance: how to do it?
This is a guest post from Aparna Dalal, independent consultant and former FAI Director of Special Projects.
November 22, 2010
What I Learned at the 6th Microinsurance Conference
This is a guest post from Aparna Dalal, independent consultant and former FAI Director of Special Projects.
February 23, 2010
Could you actively manage five financial accounts?
In this excellent post, Kate McKee highlights the intensive financial life of Hiram, a smart Kenyan entrepreneur with a thriving car rental business. Because one single institution cannot meet all his financial needs, Hiram has to patch together services from five different...
February 5, 2010
Funding innovation smartly
Z Zurich Foundation (the corporate responsibility arm of Zurich Financial Services Group) just announced a CHF 3 million (USD 2.8 million) grant to the International Labour Organization’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility. The grant aims “to facilitate the development of innovative approaches to provide better insurance coverage to more low-...
February 1, 2010
New journal on microinsurance launched
More good news from the microinsurance sector.
Insider Publishing has launched MicroRisk, a quarterly publication dedicated to the microinsurance sector. MicroRisk will cover market developments, regulatory and legal issues concerning microinsurers and reinsurers, technical questions, country-level developments and more.
January 28, 2010
New tool to track the impact of microinsurance
Curious about ongoing impact assessments in microinsurance? Check out the Stocktaking Initiative website launched by the Impact Working Group of the Microinsurance Network. The website tracks ongoing impact assessments of microinsurance...
January 20, 2010
Securitizations: a tale of promise and caution
Have the lessons from the financial crisis been fully absorbed by the microfinance sector?
January 11, 2010
Microinsurance comes to London
On February 23 and 24 I will attend the 2010 Microinsurance Summit in London. The conference's packed agenda and exciting speaker line-up promise interesting discussions on the following questions: What are the most effective delivery channels for the distribution of microinsurance products? What performance indicators can be used to improve program management?
December 10, 2009
When does insurance make sense?
In his useful assessment of microinsurance schemes, Paul Mosley proposes the idea of “quasi-insurance” – the provision of risk-protection through non-insurance routes such as loans and savings in markets where microinsurance is lacking or insufficient.
December 9, 2009
Setting new benchmarks for the impact of microfinance
What do we do now that two impact studies from the Philippines and India say that microfinance isn’t such a big deal after all? The Microfinance Working Group at Columbia took on this question in a panel on “Taking stock of microfinance: Does it really help the...