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Micro Insurance: A Safety Net With Too Many Holes?

Sep 30, 200922 min
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Episode description

Unlike micro lending -- the better-known side of micro finance -- micro insurance has been a hard sell among the world’s poor. The reasons why include a lack of understanding of how insurance products work a general reticence on the part of poor populations to part with their meager financial resources badly designed products and a shortage of localized risk management knowledge among providers. What needs to happen for micro insurance to prove that it can be both socially beneficial and economically viable?

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