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"What do ambitious rural young people really need?" The answer: An ear, a hand, and a heart provided by a mentor or coach and membership in supportive producer groups.

This paper explores how reducing vulnerability through insurance impacts child labour and schooling.

UCORA sees social reporting as a means both to convince members of the need for internal improvement, and to strengthen its dialogue with the Central Bank in order to create an enabling environment for sector development.

NATCCO (Philippines) used its SP Start-up Fund work to improve its own SPM processes, as well as that of its members. From the start, it deliberately sought to institutionalize an SPM focus in the work of the network.

The paper looks into the social context within which risk attitudes are formed and participation decisions are made, using microdata from rural households in Gujarat, India.

An experiment funded with support by CGAP and FSD Kenya demonstrated a clear demand for mobile savings products in Kenya, even when fees are required.

The report demonstrates how microfinance can be further leveraged to provide a powerful tool to address one of India’s persistent barriers to the economic advancement of the poor: ill health caused by lack of access to health services.

The present study evaluates a targeted health microinsurance program, namely the Health Care Fund for the Poor, which was initiated in Vietnam in 2003.

The paper demonstrates that the distribution of 'winners' and 'losers' is not determined purely by chance; it also reflects differences in endowments and efforts.

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.

As microfinance organizations develop sustainable growth and borrowers' increasing incomes become important issues to address.

Lessons learned from economic livelihood programs aimed at improving the economic future of street children.