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Small Premiums, Long Term Benefits: Why Poor Women Need Microinsurance
Monica Kirunguru’s story shows the benefits microinsurance can have on the lives of low income women, who are often subject to unexpected shocks in their lives. This post explores innovations in the field of women-targeted microinsurance products.
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MIT Launches Global Innovation Challenge Targeting BoP
How many great ideas does it take to make a positive impact on a community? Surprisingly, the answer can be just one. That said, a single great idea often requires the efforts of dozens or more people to bring it into reality. Identifying and leveraging the right resources are key to realizing great ideas anywhere, and no less in emerging markets.
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The Ugly Duckling Turned Rich ? Leapfrog?s Approach to Microinsurance
Microinsurance- the provision of insurance to the poor -has been overlooked due to the wide-spread focus on microcredit, but this might just be changing. Leapfrog, the first dedicated microinsurance investment fund, has raised USD137 million to be invested in microinsurance projects around the world. An interview with director Jim Roth follows.
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Report from the Mobile Money Summit (Part 1): State of the Industry
At the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of May I got a snapshot of this fast-evolving industry. With the initial success of mobile money services incorporating the poor in places like Kenya, the Philippines, Brazil, things are just getting started.
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A Private Sector Approach to Malnutrition in BoP Markets
The question of how the private sector can work to improve nutrition at the BOP guided discussions at the recent Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) annual Business Alliance Global Forum in Dubai. Yet malnutrition receives relatively little attention in BOP discussions. So what is the relevance to the private sector?
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“Technology, Design, Innovation, Africa”: An On-the-Ground Perspective
Investors and potential investors in Africa gathered in Dar es Salaam in May for the World Economic Forum on Africa. I was privileged to speak with a few individuals addressing these issues in Africa, and asked each of them, "Tell me about innovation, design, women and/or technology in Africa." Here are some of their responses.
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Pushing Forward Energy Microfinance: Energy in Common
Energy microfinance only represents 0.5% of the loans issued in microfinance. Energy in Common is a young nonprofit startup that tries to address this gap by focusing exclusively on energy loans. It has partnered with microfinance institutions to support and encourage energy loans while supporting itself from carbon offset donations.
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Primer on Social Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region
?Apparently, this is an issue whose time has come?, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said referring to the new report on ?Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Towards Sustainable Development for the Next Generation? while delivering her closing remarks at the recent Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship.
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