Tag: Health insurance
Microinsurance—Is it working yet?
Is microinsurance working? Here the author puts forth the issues that impede the success of insuring the very poor and how we might begin to approach them differently.
May 26, 2013
Microinsurance in Uganda: Tectonic Shift in the Near Future?
This Note analyses the possible impact of these regulatory and political changes on the microinsurance sector, and predicts the state of the sector in Uganda in near future.
Apr 11, 2012
Best Potential Delivery Channels for Microinsurance Part 2
In this video series-2, Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC, talks about the best potential delivery channels for microinsurance. He enlists the benefits of providing microinsurance by MFIs.
Jun 28, 2010
Reaching Cients and Mobilising Deposits
In this video Roshaneh Zafar Managing Director of Kashf Foundation and the founder of Kashf Bank, one of the leaders of microfinance in Pakistan, speaks about the challenges of reaching out to the female borrowers in one of most challenging markets in the world. She speaks on the importance of mobilising deposits from microfinance customers […]
Feb 8, 2010
Building a Bridge Between MFIs and the Health Sector, Innovative Health Care Financing Scheme for the Low-Income Community
This report outlines the challenges Afya, a healthcare financing scheme, faced during the pilot in Kenya along with reassuring indications that the health care product(s) for low-income groups have a huge market.
Jan 4, 2006
Reducing Vulnerability: The Supply of Health Microinsurance in East Africa
This paper addresses the supply side of micro-insurance. The authors identified seven institutions in the East African region as case studies to help understand supply side products and operations.
Jul 1, 2003