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Matching Products with Preferences: Innovations in Commitment Savings for the Poor (Event Resources) |
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May 16, 2012 |
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Emerging Insight #37: It’s not that I don’t understand you, I don’t trust you |
Limited trust, not lack of education or product knowledge, appears as the key barrier to take-up of health insurance in a randomized field experiment indicating priorities for insurers, regulators and donors interested in increasing product take-up. |
May 1, 2012 |
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How Mobile Phones Can Improve Access to Services for Persons with Disabilities (Event Resources) |
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April 27, 2012 |
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Working in Complex Systems: The Rubber Value Chain in Indonesia (Event Resources) |
This presentation introduces a model for working in complex systems and then demonstrates that model using the international development challenge of strengthening a rubber value chain in Indonesia. |
April 26, 2012 |
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Money on the Move: Payments and Money Transfer Behavior of African Households (Event Resources) |
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April 23, 2012 |
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Microinsurance Trilogy N°26 Spring 2012 |
With the increasing emphasis on client value in microinsurance and the need to examine products from the client’s perspective, this spring edition of the Microinsurance Trilogy focuses on social performance in microinsurance. |
April 13, 2012 |
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Is money enough to improve children's well-being? |
Midterm findings from an impact evaluation of the International Rescue Committee's VSLA and family-based program in Burundi. |
April 12, 2012 |
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Protecting the poor: A microinsurance compendium - Volume II |
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April 10, 2012 |
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Donors and Microinsurance |
This study examines the involvement of donor organisations in microinsurance by analysing their motivations, strategic directions and determining factors. |
April 4, 2012 |
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Accelerating entrepreneurship in the Caribbean |
This success story highlights the experience of Ismela Henry, a youth entrpreneur from St. Lucia, who was awarded a start-up grant to establish her business. |
April 1, 2012 |
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STRIVE Activity Brief #1: The Afghan Secure Futures (ASF) Project |
An activity under STRIVE, ASF enhanced economic opportunities for youth in Afghanistan by targeting youth apprentices. |
April 1, 2012 |
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Integrating Child Savings Accounts in the Care and Support of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Lessons from the Field |
Presentation on findings of projects in Uganda. |
April 1, 2012 |
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Smart Note: Responding to a Crisis at Fundeser |
The Smart Note, “Responding to a Crisis at Fundeser” describes how the MFI dealt with the aftermath of both the worldwide credit crisis and the internal No Pay Movement (Movimiento No Pago). |
March 31, 2012 |
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Barriers to Mobile Money Transfer Uptake in Ghana (Event Resources) |
Dr. Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto and Dr. Edwin "Cliff" Mensah discuss their IMTFI-funded research on the barriers to uptake of MFS within a Ghanaian field-based context. |
March 30, 2012 |
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HIFIVE Success Story: Access to Agricultural Credit Gives New Opportunities to Local Farmers |
HIFIVE has created new opportunities for Haitian farmers by increasing access to agricultural credit. |
March 30, 2012 |
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Market Aggregation: Facilitating "Game Changing" Opportunities in Ukraine (Event Resources) |
Nick Ramsing of MEDA discusses the analysis and diagnosis of the market problem, the strategic objective, and the iterative process to design, prototype, test, and implement market-driven solutions to link smallholder farmers to higher value markets. |
March 22, 2012 |
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Lessons Learned From Sequenced, Integrated Strategies of Economic Strengthening of the Poorest (Event Resources) |
Three leading practitioners and thought leaders highlight lessons learned from innovative practices and research that support ultra-poor households in transitioning from meeting basic needs towards economic self-reliance. |
March 21, 2012 |
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Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya |
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March 11, 2012 |
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Smart Note: Treating Clients with Respect at Fundación Mundo Mujer Popayán |
Treating clients with dignity and respect helps financial service providers adhere to both their social mission and financial goals. This Smart Note describes how Fundación Mundo Mujer Popayán developed a stronger pro-client attitude. |
March 8, 2012 |
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Health Worker Preferences for Community-Based hHalth Insurance Payment Mechanisms: A Discrete Choice Experiment |
In this paper an experimental design examines how the relationship between insurance providers and health care facilities - and more specifically payment mechanisms for services delivered by health workers - can influence uptake and renewals. |
March 1, 2012 |
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