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Blog Series

Microinsurance: Key to Managing Risk

Insurance coverage is dramatically expanding with millions of more low-income households accessing better services and innovative products. This series will share recent practices and emerging ideas that have advanced the field. Featuring key practitioners, researchers and thought leaders on this topic, the blog series will present new insights from data, practice, and innovations that have emerged in recent years to meet the challenges of providing insurance to the poor, and in particular focus on:

  • Data and demand
  • Technology and innovations
  • Insurance in emergencies
  • The role of global standards
  • Impact of microinsurance
Blog
23 August 2013

Keep Your Insurance Close, and Your Friends and Family Closer

Throughout our research, we are seeing that friends and family are often a preferred source of support when a financial shock strikes. So, what is the role of microinsurance.
Blog
19 July 2013

Microinsurance is Key to Managing Risk: Wrapping-up

CGAP's recent blog series on microinsurance brought together over a dozen thought leaders and confirmed that microinsurance is an important service to help poor households protect their fragile livelihoods and lives against inevitable risks and unexpected catastrophes.
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Blog
05 July 2013

What Do We Know about the Impact of Microinsurance?

Knowledge is still patchy but key insights are emerging on the impact of microinsurance products including financial protection and better access to health care.
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Blog
02 July 2013

Top 7 Opportunities for Funders to Advance Microinsurance

The Microinsurance Network and its members have identified interesting opportunities for donors and funders, based on experiments already underway, to further galvanize the sector.
Blog
13 June 2013

Does Outpatient Care Through Microinsurance Offer Value?

Is there a business case for microinsurance? Does it provide value for clients? In Tanzania, The MicroInsurance Centre's MILK Project found two clear benefits to clients: getting them to a doctor sooner and efficiently financing health shocks.
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Blog
05 June 2013

Micro Health Insurance: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?

Micro health insurance clients are increasingly being served by government-backed services. Does this mean that the trend is to move away from private providers?
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Blog
28 May 2013

From Diagnostic to Action: Developing Microinsurance in Nigeria

A Microinsurance Country Diagnostic in Nigeria revealed that while there is a huge opportunity for the development of a microinsurance market, low-income people in the country have limited knowledge of insurance and the value it can deliver.
Blog
13 May 2013

Access to Insurance Through Regulation and Supervision

Adequate regulation and supervision enhance policyholder protection. That is the ultimate objective of insurance supervision and regulation according to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
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Blog
07 May 2013

M-Insurance: Ensuring Take-off While Doing No Harm

Mobile network operators (MNOs) have recently begun offering insurance to their clients known as ‘m-insurance’, which offers a significant opportunity to scale-up access to insurance.
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Blog
02 May 2013

Mobile Life Insurance: Innovations From Pakistan

The commercial viability of businesses that provide life insurance to the poor is difficult to predict. The strong penetration of mobile phones in Pakistan provides a cost-effective method of acquiring customers that holds promise for the industry.

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