- Microinsurance: Improving Risk Management for The Poor
This newsletter is published three times a year by ADA for the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance and presents key topics and experiences in microinsurance. The newsletter also includes updates on the Working Group's activities. - Microinsurance Notes
This series of ten newsletters is produced by the MicroInsurance Centre for USAID. Each newsletter explores a specific issue. The series will also include two Speakers’ Corners on Microlinks. - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Notes
These notes present different microinsurance specifc issues and challenges, and discuss opportunities, roles and methods. - Micro-Health Insurance Updates
This newsletter is part of the “Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India” project and informs about the project's recent activities and shares news about micro-health insurance. - G-NEWS Social security extension and microinsurance
This is collaborative newsletter, published by ILO/STEP, describes recent initiatives; highlights news and key resources; and proposes a feature article. - PROSPER
Prosper is the development activities supplement from ICMIF and includes articles relating to the area of development, including microinsurance and takaful. - Microfinance and Health Protection MAHP News
This newsletter published by Freedom from Hunger aims to contribute to greater awareness of and enthusiasm for the microfinance and health protection initiative both from within MAHP partner institutions and among a wider audience of collaborators and supporters.
Microinsurance: Improving Risk Management for The Poor
- Microinsurance No. 15, May 2008; (English); (French);(Spanish)
Microinsurance Innovation Facility; performance indicators in microinsurance and updates and news - Microinsurance No. 14, December 2007; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Policy matters and the role of an enabling policy environment; capacity building and news from the sub-groups of the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance - Microinsurance No. 13, August 2007; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Legal framework for mutuals in WAEMU; disaster management in India, Anidaso microinsurance - Microinsurance No. 12, April 2007; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Market research on demand for microinsurance; impact assessment; micro-health insurance in Uganda - Microinsurance No. 11, November 2006; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Subsidized reinsurance debate; Yasiru (Sri Lanka) partnership with Interpolis N.V; CIF Life Product in West Africa - Microinsurance No. 10, July 2006; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Index-based livestock insurance Mongolia; index insurance and rural finance; ASSEF partnership with health care providers (Benin) - Microinsurance No. 9, March 2006; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Health microinsurance schemes; microinsurance regulation; Yeshasvini Trust's health insurance (India) - Microinsurance No. 8, November 2005; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Making insurance work; comments on delivery models; TATA-AIG Micro-Agent model (India) - Microinsurance No. 7, June 2005; (English); (French); (Spanish)
Reinsurance and microfinance; gender dimensions of microinsurance; Delta Life (Bangladesh) - Microinsurance No. 6, March 2005; (English); (French); (Russian)
Some criteria for successful microinsurance; microinsurance and social protection; TYM's Mutual assistance found (Vietnam) - Microinsurance No. 5, December 2004; (English); (French); (Russian)
Regulation and supervision in microinsurance; microinsurance regulation in India; Card (Philippines) - Microinsurance No. 4, September 2004; (English); (French)
The risks of crop insurance; Columna; Serviperu - Microinsurance No. 3, April 2004; (English); (French)
Risk and risk management; Indian microinsurance and innovation - Microinsurance No. 2, November 2003; (English); (French)
Preliminary donor guidelines on microinsurance; Microcare health care financing (Uganda) - Microinsurance No. 1, August 2003; (English); (French)
Understanding the demand for microinsurance
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- Microinsurance Notes 9: Visions of the Future of Microinsurance, and Thoughts on Getting There, March 2008
This final Microinsurance Note takes a look at the future of microinsurance. The premise of this paper is that massification—providing huge numbers of low-income people with access to microinsurance products that they perceive as valuable—is an important goal for the future. - Microinsurance Notes 8: Facilitating an Appropriate Regulatory and Supervisory Environment for Microinsurance, January 2008
This note addresses the creation of an appropriate regulatory and supervisory system for microinsurance. Insurance is a business of trust and insurers need to act on their promises. -
Microinsurance Notes 7: Life Insurance for the Low-Income
Market, September 2007
Demand research among low-income people consistently finds demand for risk management tools that could help them cope with financial issues related to the death of a breadwinner -
Microinsurance Notes 6: Health Microinsurance, June 2007
Of all the insurance products that could benefit low-income families, health insurance is the most obviously beneficial and yet quite likely the most difficult to deliver -
Microinsurance Notes 5: Innovations in Insurance for Weather-related Losses: Index Insurance, April 2007
Index insurance is an innovation that circumvents many of the fundamental problems that hamper the development of insurance for weather risks in lower income countries - Microinsurance Notes 4: Product Development, April 2007
Product development is informed by demand, competition, and the capacity and objectives of the institutions offering the microinsurance product - Microinsurance Notes 3: Partnerships: Microfinance Institutions and Commercial Insurers, January 2007
Partnership between MFIs and insurance companies; challenges and keys to succes; credit life insurance -
Microinsurance Notes 2: How Microinsurance is delivered?, November 2006
The importance of administrative costs; partnerships with MFIs; microinsurance intermediary; different delivery channels -
Microinsurance Notes 1: What is Microinsurance?, September 2006
Short history of microinsurance; different models and overview of the market; the role of donors
MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Notes
- MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 6: Financial Risk Management Tools for the Poor, December 2003
Specific risks, microinsurance products; delivery models; and the donors’ role - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 5: Lessons from Health Care Financing Programmes in East Africa, December 2003
Learnings for the microinsurance sector; financial and risk management - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 4: An Example of Systematic New Product Development for Life Microinsurance, 2003
Encouraging innovation in new product development by adopting a systematic approach; the cycle of product design; factors affecting the design - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 3: Making Microinsurance Work for Clients, December 2003
Opportunities for microinsurance providers; accessibility; product design; formal and informal insurance - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 2: How Poor People Manage Risk, December 2003
What is the role of microinsurance?; impact of risk; ways to cope with risk - MicroInsurance Centre Briefing Note 1: The Lure of MicroInsurance: Why MFIs Should Work with Insurers, 2002
MFIs should tread cautiously in the microinsurance sector; dealing with risks and partners; establishing capacity limits
Micro-Health Insurance Updates
- Micro-Health Insurance Update, Issue 2, October 2005
Yeshasvini Trust; Karuna Trust’s innovative insurance product; spatial distances and acceptance of health insurance - Micro-Health Insurance Update, Issue 1, June 2005
Regulating microinsurance; focus on facts (partners, clients, objectives); BIMTECH capacity building