servicing another credit but lower allocation on savings than client households. This suggests that nonclient households …This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from … the government can assist in asset development, particularly for the poor households. Results show that that there is a …

We employed the Gini method to investigate the effect of microinsurance on asset inequality among households in Ghana … directions to encourage more low-income households to take up microinsurance schemes. …. The findings indicate that the asset inequality of insured households is less than that of uninsured households. Also …

Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …

more important the higher is the wealth of the household. The intuition behind this effect is the following: when an agent … experienced by household members. We set up a utility-maximizing household search model in which consumption and job search … household member is stochastic: both employed and unemployed agents receive job offers arriving randomly from a known wage offer …

behavioral saving strategies are not predictors of savings amounts in IDAs. Additional research is needed to understand the …

The poor in developing countries are the most exposed to natural catastrophes and microfinance organizations may … default problems. For this reason we suggest reconversion of donor aid into financial support to compulsory microinsurance …

programs in poor countries. This is done on the basis of the experience of a microinsurance health program in India. We show … insurance concept are the major causes of the low contract renewal rate among households which had previously enrolled into the … program. A central finding is that, when a household has received a large negative payout during the preceding year, it is …

domestic production. ADB undertook this technical assistance study to support microinsurance development in Mongolia. The study … provides an overview of the development of Mongolia’s insurance market in general and the microinsurance segment in particular …, then identifies gaps in the insurance regulatory framework that need to be bridged to expand microinsurance coverage to …

-income households, and the fact that microinsurance is a mostly unknown concept in Romania. There is a clear need and demand for …Microinsurance is a term increasingly used to refer to insurance characterized by low premium and low caps or low … evaluating the impact of microinsurance projects exist. Of these, even fewer have a rigorous methodology leading to reliable …