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January 7, 2013
India: Insurance regulatory authority relaxes residence proof norms for microinsurance products
The Indian regulatory authority for insurance, the IRDA has decided to lower the bar for access to microinsurance products, targeted for the low income brackets by relaxing the residence proof documents required to buy the policies. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Nigeria: BoI to set up micro-credit fund
The Bank of Industry will soon be setting up a micro-credit fund, to finance microenterprises in the country. This fund will be called the Base of the Pyramid Fund or the BOPF and will lend to deserving entrepreneurs of the low income bracket. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Kiva: The link between microfinance and fertility rates
This post recounts the attempts at finding a relationship between the numbers of children a rural woman, in this case, in Dakar may want to have, to how much of support and independence she has gained through her microfinance funded microenterprise. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
India: Moving beyond the Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis
India has moved past the microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh which led to the ruin of a number of MFIs. The surviving MFIs have taken a number of progressive and innovative steps to ensure survival, while regulatory frameworks have been instrumental in this comeback as well. This post enlists the […]
January 7, 2013
Financial inclusion regions across the world
This CGAP post enlists the financial inclusion scenario, predictions and trends across several regions like East Africa, Central Asia, Latin America and more. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Remembering PINs in rural Bangladesh
CGAP, World Bank and pi Strategy Consulting launched a programme called EGPP or the Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest, which uses employment and technology based payment programmes for poor agrarians in between harvests. To get rid of the problem of low attendance and payments to ghost workers, a PIN-system […]
January 7, 2013
Consumer research from Brazil – its more quality than quantity
When Bradesco, one of the largest banks in Brazil wanted to make products that more efficiently cater to the needs of the C, D, and E classes of the population, CGAP helped to observe IDEO’s help with interviewing consumers. This post outlines IDEO’s innovative approach in interviewing consumers to assess […]
January 7, 2013
Reaching out to the unbanked – Philippines
Philippines have been awarded the best in world status for its microfinance enabling policies four times in a row now. This post evaluates the reasons for this success and is the first of a two part series. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Financial inclusion by design – a case study
This CGAP blog post talks about how the organization has finally cracked the nut of appropriate product innovation, needed to include the financially underserved three-quarters of the world. CGAP and MTN launched AppLab Money Incubator which consisted of a number of resources, all appropriate for designing consumer centric products. This […]
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