This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among lowincome people in southern … Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various … types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have …

payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm … finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …

develop these insights through analysis of the Friendly Society Movement, a previously untapped and rich history of insurance …

This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among lowincome people in southern … Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various … types of insurance - among them a micro life insurance product - and how their negative and/or positive evaluations have …

Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as …

Ghana gezeigt wird, das Vertrauen in die Versicherer und der Informationsstand über spezifische Versicherungsprodukte in der …

The insurance industry plays an important role for European economic stability and the threats and opportunities it …

, the insurance payouts also seem to have contributed to an inflation of funeral costs. Dependence on informal assistance …

This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial … microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …