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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 case presents lessons from IFFCO-TOKIO's implementation of a livestock insurance product using radio-frequency identification technology.

This paper investigates the preferences of clients and determinants of demand for microinsurance products with the case study of the Mutual Assistance Fund (MAF), the pioneer microinsurance provider in Vietnam.

This paper uses a laboratory experiment in Gujarat, India to assess consumers' relative valuations of savings versus insurance when planning for risky rainfall.

This paper assesses the impact of educational intervention on knowledge, attitude and willingness-to-pay for health insurance using occupational solidarity.

This Microinsurance paper assesses four products offered by Indian insurers that combine the benefits of insurance and saving.

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

This Microinsurance Paper estimates the role of information in insurance take-up using data from a randomized experiment in rural China where information was either offered directly through financial education or accessed indirectly through social networks. Unlike previous studies, the experimental design allows to not only to identify the causal effect of social networks, but also to differentiate the various channels through which they operate, including the improvement of negotiating power, imitation, and social learning of insurance benefits.

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