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Monthly Archives: February 2015
National minimum borrowing age of 21?!
Not sure if any of you have read the FT this weekend, but there is an interesting commentary by Gary Silverman on page 9….. He argues that considering the US has a national drinking age og 21, it should also … Continue reading
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Microinsurance 101 – the what, the how many, and the country profiles
I have been always very much focused on the more usual products in microfinance, i.e., deposits, loans, transfers, etc. However, microinsurance is becoming more and more important. Due to my current mini-project with the MicroInsuranceNetwork, I actually had to learn … Continue reading
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Microinsurance in Africa 2012 – impressive growth
This blog primarily draws from a study published by Making Finance Work for Africa and the Munich Re Foundation aiming at updating and expanding on the 2010 Africa landscape study. Key Findings: With also some key data points on the … Continue reading
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Microinsurance in LAC 2014 – towards mass market insurance?!
The full report is not out yet, however we get a glimpse at the data via a preliminary briefing note due in Q1 2015. The study identified 48,6 million people covered in Latinamerica and the Caribbean (45,5 million had been … Continue reading
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Microinsurance in Asia – a fairly heterogenic development of different markets
Microinsurance in Asia and Oceania is growing fast. A number of governments such as India, Indonesia and the Philippines have started developing a regulatory framework to facilitate the development of innovative solutions. As more and more stakeholders see the potential … Continue reading
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Banking agents in Peru…
CGAP recently launched a CGAP brief “Driving Scale and Density of Agent Networks in Perú” based on a CGAP-led research on 26,000 banking agents and 24 million monthly transactions to describe the relationship among factors that will help these agent networks to … Continue reading
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Kenya Financial Diaries – How do low-income households manage their money ?
Wouldn´t it be great to better understand the financial lives of low-income clients? How they prefer to save, to whom they lend money to borrow from them at a later stage, how many times they experience a family emergency, etc. … Continue reading