Resource Library

The Resource Library serves as a broad resource hub, including over 1000 documents, training materials, wikis, and curated reports to increase readers' awareness, understanding, and proficiency of several topics in market systems development. Users have access to proposals, evaluation materials, and USAID policy updates, as well as training modules and wikis to boost skills and knowledge.

These resources are bolstered by the inclusion of curated USAID reports published on the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) which serves as a repository of reports from completed or ongoing USAID development projects around the globe. The full USAID Development Clearinghouse website can be accessed here.

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The Demand for Micro-Insurance: A Literature Review

This paper provides a selective overview of the current state of research on demand for microinsurance. It first looks at the theoretical research and then reviews the empirical evidence on the factors influencing demand for insurance.

A New Look at Microfinance Apexes

CGAP's latest Focus Note, A New Look at Microfinance Apexes, offers an overview of microfinance apex operations, wholesale funds that channel public resources to multiple retail financial providers in a country.

Microinsurance decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia

This study reviews evidence collected from a microinsurance field experiment in rural Ethiopia. The experiment involves collecting data from individuals in order to predict the shape of the demand curve for indexed insurance.

Managing microinsurance partnerships

This paper analyses microinsurance partnerships and provides a framework with which to analyse both new and existing partnerships and recommendations to monitor and improve them.