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September 10, 2012
Education Strategy Update for World Bank’s ‘Education Sector Strategy 2020: Learning for All’
The World Bank in the previous year had launched a comprehensive document called the ‘Education Sector Strategy 2020: Learning for All’ detailing the world education strategy is aimed to implement, putting stress on gender equality and importance to skill training as a greater measure to a region’s economic progression, than […]
September 10, 2012
India: LIC launches new microinsurance product called ‘Jeevan Deep’
India’s largest life insurer, state-owned LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) recently launched a new microinsurance product called ‘Jeevan Deep’. It provides a cover ranging from INR 5000 to INR 30,000, and caters to the needs of the low income communities of the country. Read more here.
September 10, 2012
Nigeria: NAICOM to help develop agri and microinsurance
The NAICOM (National Insurance Commission) has mobilised insurance sector stakeholders in the country to develop microinsurance and agricultural insurance products for the poor in the country, and also to develop the grassroots level insurance market. Read more here.
September 10, 2012
SKS allots 4.45 million shares to Kumaon Investment
SKS Microfinance, which has recently been bouncing back after the Andhra Pradesh microfinance fiasco, recently allotted about 4.45 million of its shares on a preferential basis to Kumaon Investment Holdings. Read more here.
September 10, 2012
Applying microinsurance innovation to commercial insurance
Allianz Life Indonesia piloted a web based administration system to implement TAMADERA, a microinsurance endowment product, so as to decrease operational costs. Read more here.
September 10, 2012
MiCRO and Fonkoze help Haitians rebuild their businesses
The storm Isaac caused untold damages in the loves of Haitians who were barely settling down in their lives after the earthquake in 2010. Microinsurance company MiCRO (Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation) is helping fix the lives of people who have lost their homes and businesses by making payments to Fonkoze, […]
September 10, 2012
Kiva vs. Zidisha: Comparing microfinance alternatives
While both Kiva and Zidisha are non-profit microfinance organizations operational online and based in the US, there are a few notable differences. While Kiva lends the lender amounts to microfinance institutions based locally, Zidisha uses no intermediaries. Loans from Zidisha go directly to computer literate borrowers who update their loans […]
September 10, 2012
BRAC: Reinventing microfinance
BRAC has successfully experimented with microfinance to evolve it on their terms to a new model called the Graduation Model. This model is meant for people who are too poor to be eligible even for microfinance loans, and must struggle to feed themselves and their families on a sustained basis. […]
September 10, 2012
Accion microfinance to house its archives in Tufts
Accion, the international non-profit which has worked extensively in the field of microfinance has declared that it will house its archives within Tufts University’s Digital Collections and Archives. Accion has been named a high-impact non-profit by Philanthropedia (read here). Read more here.
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