Theme: Microinsurance

India: Impact of COVID-19 on Business Correspondents

This report highlights the impact of COVID-19 on business correspondent (BC) agents in India and the issues they faced while delivering financial services in the wake of the pandemic. It also offers policy recommendations to help BCs offer uninterrupted services.

Jun 11, 2020

Aakash Mehrotra, Abhishek Anand, Gayatri Pandey, Manoj Nayak, Mohak Srivastava, Nitish Narain, Surbhi Sood and Shobhit Mishra

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Covered! How informal youth workers in the gig economy can be insured

In this blog, we highlight how MSC uses its behavioral and human-centered research to understand the dynamic nature of work for the youth, especially those in the informal sector, risks that affect them, and their everyday use-cases to design effective microinsurance product concepts for gig platforms and workers.

May 22, 2020

Peter Charagu

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How much has changed in just 20 years – Part 2

This blog will take a closer look at how development services are being delivered—and how this has changed over the last 20 years.

Apr 5, 2019

Graham Wright

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A comprehensive framework for gender centrality in financial services

This briefing note introduces MSC’s gender centrality framework and explains how financial service providers and policymakers can help to promote the gender equality.

Mar 7, 2019

Akhand Tiwari, Bhavana Srivastava and Sunita Rangaswami