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Microinsurance for health and agricultural risks

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ifpri.org -

“In 2002 a group of insurance and reinsurance professionals set out to demonstrate that the low-income market was a viable insurance market. The initial aim was to better understand client needs and the willingness of insurers to provide products to this market. The team worked within Opportunity International, which, as a leading microfinance network, was able to provide the borrowers and seed capital needed to get started. Between 2002 and 2005 the team worked as an internal consultancy that more...

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Credit risk analysis in microcredit: How does gender matter?

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solvay.edu -

This paper is the first to analyze the credit risk of a microfinance institution based on the loan portfolio of a leading Maghrebian microfinance institution, both in terms of number of clients served and of portfolio size.

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Insurance for the Poor

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www2.gtz.de -

“This document presents the synthesis of five country case studies on the role of regulation in the development of microinsurance markets. The objectives of this project were to map the experience in a sample of five developing countries (Colombia, India, the Philippines, South Africa and Uganda) where microinsurance products have evolved and to consider the influence that policy, regulation and supervision have had on the development of these markets.”

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Impact of Micro-Credit on Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh

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Most of the studies conclude that women’s participation in micro-credit programs has positive results on women’s empowerment. Some other evaluations provide a completely opposite view and conclude that participation leads to greater subordination of women and makes them more vulnerable in an unequal rural society.The purpose of this paper is to review those evaluations and try to assess why they reach contrasting conclusions about the same type of programs. The paper is based on secondary more...

Added by Zunia on March 08, 2010

Mobile Money gets Coverage in Vanuatu

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undppc.org.fj -

[Port Vila, Vanuatu - February 25] Mobile phones offer huge potential to change the way we send and save money. The provision of financial services, often referred to as “mobile money” has leapt on to the world stage in the past few years. In just three years since it was launched by Safari.com, over eight million Kenyans are transferring money and making payments from their mobile wallets. Similar systems in the Philippines, Cambodia, India and elsewhere are already reaching millions in Asia. more...

Added by corinne roberts on March 01, 2010

Providing insurance through microfinance institutions

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ifpri.org -

Micro-insurance is a powerful tool in helping low-income households transition out of poverty, but it has not achieved substantial scale compared with micro-credit. In India, micro-finance institutions (MFIs) initially showed great potential in offering micro-insurance through in-house provision (the mutual model) or as agents for mainstream micro-insurance companies (the partner– agent model). Over time, however, both models revealed significant flaws. The mutual model appeared limited because more...

Added by Zunia on February 25, 2010

Investors Implementing the Client Protection Principles in Microfinance

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cgap.org -

This brief says that client protection is a key tenet of microfinance. The Client Protection Principles and the SMART Campaign are the heart of an industry-wide initiative aimed at safeguarding the interests of microfinance clients. The end goal is adoption of appropriate policies, practices, and products by retail providers. By endorsing the six principles and joining the Campaign, providers commit to take practical steps to treat clients fairly and respectfully while avoiding practices that more...

Added by Zunia on February 13, 2010

Building a Viable Microfinance Sector in Afghanistan

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microfinancegateway.org -

“ AREU research on the impact of microcredit on informal credit systems and rural livelihoods illustrated the viability challenges MFIs were facing. These challenges were linked to having invested little effort in determining the viability of clients by understanding the social and economic contexts in which they were to invest their loans or in offering loan products meeting client needs.”

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2010

Creditworthiness as a signal of trustworthiness

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microfinancegateway.org -

“Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms since the act of conferring a loan has the indirect effect of signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We test the creditworthiness-trustworthiness nexus in an investment game experiment on a sample of participants/non participants to a microfinance program in Argentina and find that trustors give significantly more to (and believe they will receive more from) microfinance borrowers. Trustees.’ first and second order beliefs are more...

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2010

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Rural and Microfinance in Asia

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microfinancegateway.org -

“Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out those institutions and their clientele have been affected by the global financial crisis, how they have coped with the on-going crisis and what they plan to do in the future to ensure the stability of the rural financial system and the continuing access of clients to financial services.”

Added by Zunia on February 08, 2010

Relieving the capital constraint on smallholder groups and other agricultural SMEs

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oxfam.org.uk -

"Private-sector finance has made a start in filling this long-established gap, widened over the last decade as public-sector financing frameworks for small-scale agriculture have been withdrawn. However, the flow of capital to agricultural SMEs needs to be scaled up. This paper looks at the barriers to doing so."

Added by Zunia on January 31, 2010

UNDP and UNCDF commit $4m towards microfinance development in Rwanda

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uncdf.org -

"The programme - jointly funded by UNDP ($US 2 m) and UNCDF ($US 2m) - aims at sustaining the implementation of the National Microfinance Strategy for a period of four years between 2009 and 2014."

Added by Imran Uddin on January 26, 2010

Does Microcredit Really Help Poor People?

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cgap.org -

Thia docuement says that ever since microcredit first began to capture public attention 25 years ago, the usual story line has been that it is a tool of extraordinary power to lift poor people--especially women--out of poverty, by funding their microenterprises and raising their incomes. This picture has been buttressed by hundreds of inspiring stories of microentrepreneurs who used tiny loans to start or expand their businesses, and experienced remarkable gains not only in income and more...

Added by Zunia on January 25, 2010

Promoting Savings as a Tool for International Development

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newamerica.net -

"Scholars, policymakers, and practitioners of microfinance are increasingly turning their focus toward devising and offering effective and accessible savings services for the poor. In fact, not only have experts argued that demand for savings services greatly exceeds that of microcredit, but many also contend that savings-led programs and products, with a focus on building assets, may be more effective than credit in providing a pathway out of poverty."

Added by Zunia on January 20, 2010

Consumption, Commercial or Mortgage Loans: Does it Matter for MFIs in Latin America?

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microfinancegateway.org -

"Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are not all alike – they are different sizes, have different missions, serve different client groups, and can offer different products. And increased maturation and competition in many microfinance markets have only accelerated this last distinction regarding product type. The product spectrum at the end of the market has moved beyond the quintessential microenterprise loan to a wider variety of products. Previous research on this area has already shown that more...

Added by Zunia on January 20, 2010

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