After more than a century of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) inherited one of the most unequal societies in the world. The degree of inequality and discrimination are remarkably well documented. Periodic income and expenditure surveys during the 1980s and 1990s and annual...

This paper examines the impact of micro health insurance on poverty reduction in rural areas of Bangladesh. The research is based on household level primary data collected from the operating areas of the Grameen Bank during 2006. A number of outcome measures relating to poverty status are...

We examine the impact of micro health insurance placement on health awareness, healthcare utilization and health status of microcredit members in rural Bangladesh, using data from 329 households in the operating areas of Grameen Bank. The results are based on econometric analysis conditioned on...