Starting from the recent rise of much-hyped 'fintech'(financial technologies) solutions for development finance, which have been heralded by the World Bank/IMF/G20 etc as a silver …
C Churchill - The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and …, 2007 - Springer
In many developing countries, commercial insurers are beginning to become interested in serving the low-income market by providing microinsurance. To do so, they have to …
DL Collins, M Leibbrandt - Aids, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Background: Rising mortality rates caused by HIV/AIDS in South Africa have substantial and lingering impacts on poor households. Methods: This is a descriptive paper using a new …
Income fluctuations resulting from socio-economic, climate and other environmental risks are an important barrier to sustainable development particularly in developing countries with …
AL Alhassan, N Magazi - The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance …, 2021 - Springer
This paper examines the effect of microinsurance usage on household asset welfare, measured as asset accumulation index using a sample of 2006 households with access to …
N Bernards - Development and Change, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microinsurance—defined as low‐cost insurance products targeting low‐income populations— exemplifies key themes in contemporary neoliberalism, and has figured prominently in …
As the life and funeral insurance premiums have increased significantly between 2001 and 2013 in South Africa, it was important to assess the determinants, macroeconomic or …
C Churchill - The Handbook of Microfinance, 2011 - World Scientific
This paper describes the diverse roots of microinsurance, including affinity groups, microfinance providers, social protection advocates, and insurers seeking their fortune at the …