Is There a Business Case for Microinsurance? A review of recent literature
By Richard Koven and Emily Zimmerman
23 April 2011
This Landscape Paper reviews the large body of writings and conference presentations on microinsurance to try and determine whether the business case for this new industry has been made. Our conclusion, in short, is that it hasn’t. Beyond compulsory credit life schemes, we have struggled to find a single well-documented case of a microinsurance enterprise that is profitable at scale.
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Richard Koven
Emily Zimmerman
Is There a Business Case for Microinsurance? A review of recent literature
This Landscape Paper reviews the large body of writings and conference presentations on microinsurance to try and determine whether the business case for this new industry has been made.
Richard Koven, Emily Zimmerman