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Reducing vulnerability: Demand for and supply of microinsurance in East Africa
It examines the demand for risk management tools by the poor and gathers experience of seven institutions providing microinsurance to satisfy this demand in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania
Dec 1, 2003
It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Losses Suffered by People Saving in Uganda
The paper provides details of the richness and complexity of poor people’s attempts at saving in the informal sector and their successes, failures and losses as they do so.
May 1, 2002
Use and Impact of Savings Services Among Poor People in Zambia
This study shows the importance of savings for smoothing out peaks and troughs in income and expenditure in Zambia
Dec 3, 2001
Savings Products and Services in the Informal Sector and Microfinance Institutions in West Africa: The Case of Mali and Benin
This paper looks at how poor people use informal, semi-formal and formal sector savings systems and services to better manage their household income and expenditure flows.
Sep 1, 2001
HIV/AIDS -Responding To A Silent Economic Crisis Among Microfinance Clients In Kenya and Uganda
The paper examines how households respond to and manage the crisis that HIV/AIDS brings and how MFIs might assist them to do so.
Sep 1, 2001