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Microfinance Opportunities
Microfinance Opportunities is a women-owned microenterprise resource center that seeks to facilitate an improvement in poor people`s lives by increasing their access to well-designed and well-delivered financial services.

Access to Insurance for the Poor (World Bank)
Their collection is a compilation of resources covering the following areas in microinsurance: - the case for microinsurance; - how institutions and regulation can improve access to insurance; - delivery mechanisms that lower costs; - design, pricing, and reinsurance of insurance products; and - taking a market approach to providing insurance

ProVention Consortium
ProVention was established by the World Bank in 2000 to address the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters and their social, economic and environmental impacts on developing countries. As poor countries continue to be disproportionately affected by disasters and incur the majority of costs, there is a growing recognition of the inextricable links between disaster vulnerability, poverty and development.

MicroSave
MicroSave is a unique organization that promotes the development of savings and other more client-responsive financial services among microfinance institutions (MFIs). It was MicroSave that gave the MicroInsurance Centre its start.

European Microfinance Platform
European multi-stakeholder group to enhance dialogue, mutual learning, and competence in microfinance, building on the past and current experience of European countries and actors and their interaction with developing countries.

Infosure - The Health Insurance Evaluation Methodology and Information System
Offering excellent tools for analysing social health insurance systems in developing countries.

FinMark Trust
FinMark Trust aims to promote and support policy and institutional development towards the objective of increasing access to financial services by the un- and under-banked in Africa. One key theme area is Insurance and FinMark Trust has excellent documents and research available especially relating to Southern Africa.

HealthCARE Principles
An article in the CDC`s online periodical,Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy

Global Investor
Online service to provide you, the sophisticated investor, with investment data, news and research from around the globe (presently 43 different countries)... more specifically from the alternative and emerging markets.


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