Resource Library

Find resources here from February’s seminar, including the webinar recording and presenters’ slides.

The Global Findex database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Read the 2014 edition now.

Check out presenters' key takeaways, download presentation slides, and other post-event products from this Microlinks Seminar.

This World Bank paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11.

Learn more about the efficiency of various interventions on the economic empowerment of women.

FIELD-Support LWA partner World Vision is working with smallholder farmers in Angola to raise their incomes through better information and enhanced value chain linkages.

The CGAP report Regulatory Options to Curb Debt Stress offers a policy framework for preventing and managing debt stress.

There is a clear need for better risk management for small scale farmers, yet the demand for microinsurance from clients is not necessarily there. Pranav Prashad discusses the challenges of delivering agricultural microinsurance.

The Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) project in India has found that the use of outpatient services by clients is associated with increased renewals. As an added benefit of its cashless inpatient health insurance product, SSP offers clients a discount of approximately 50 percent on consultation fees from a network of local physicians and a 40 to 70 percent discount on the retail price of drugs. This Emerging Insight highlights the project's observations around client behavior related to outpatient services.

This video was captured during the microinsurance training event organised by the Gordon Institute of Business Science and supported by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, in October 2010. Janice Angove and Nashelo Tande, from the actuarial consultancy Quindiem, present the business case for microinsurance. Drawing on Quindiem’s research into insurance and the low-income market, Angove and Tande discuss how microinsurance can contribute to a company’s sustainability, the keys to success within this market and how insurers must balance innovation with good business practice.

The TYM Fund is a Grameen replication project by the Vietnam Women’s Union to promote the welfare of Vietnamese women.

This study covers two microinsurance schemes that operate through local organizations managing all fieldwork.

The paper points to the important evolutions of understanding within VimoSEWA in Ahmedabad, India.