Climate Change and Index Insurance
This briefing note summarizes the emerging issues related to climate change and index insurance, discussing how climate trends are being considered in index product design and pricing, and how this could be improved.
Rethinking MSME Financing: It's the Customer's Digital Transformation That Matters
As small businesses go digital, platform data can help MFIs better serve them, contributing to a healthier, more sustainable and more inclusive lending model.
Sharing the Risk: “Micro Equity” for Savings Groups
DreamStart Labs is re-thinking assumptions about how to design solutions for people in emerging economies, starting with a new product which aims to distribute risks more fairly.
Experiences in Gender-Sensitive Solutions to Collateral Constraints
Three Solutions for Delivering Insurance to Smallholder Farmers
Leading microinsurance providers discuss how to solve issues with distribution, the multitude of risks farmers face and uptake.
Putting Client Insights Into Practice: Six Springboards
Productive Versus Consumption Loans: A Distinction That Hurts Rather Than Helps
Water.org explains why water and sanitation loans have high repayment rates and should be prioritized by MFIs, and makes a call to all microfinance professionals to reject the misguided labeling of loans as either productive or for consumption only.