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A microinsured family relates their experience. One of nine real-life stories about microinsurance ... / Credits: Allianz

Fair Finance and Allianz partner to improve the operations of a London-based microfinance provider. / Credits: Reuters

A dust storm is raging on a field. More than 15 million people in the Sahel are directly affected ... / Credits: Reuters

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Finance: Interview The price of dust: Crop insurance in the Sahel more

An ethnic Buyi farmer carries stalks of rice at Pianpo Village in Guizhou province. China has over ... / Credits: Reuters

Finance China promoting microinsurance across nation Life microinsurance has been developing rapidly in China since 2008; now, the ... more

Activists for Social Alternatives (ASA) was founded in 1986 to assist poor women in Tamil Nadu, India.

Kiva.org Co-Founder Matt Flannery and President Premal Shah

Small group meeting of IMAGE program participants.

A woman uses her mobile phone inside a Safaricom shop in Nairobi.

Ramona Florentino of the Dominican Republic speaks with three ACCION loan officers.

Villagers in Nicaragua attend a Pro Mujer-sponsored health workshop.

An Indonesian trader walks by a stocks screen in Jakarta, where BRI is highlighted.

Yunus with Grameen Bank representative Mosammat Taslima Begum receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2006.

Clementine Uzabakiriho (left) of Rwanda was Opportunity International's one millionth client.

A microfinance client in her shop in Nicaragua.

Finance Ten groundbreaking microfinance providers A review of ten of the world's most innovative and important microfinance organizations ... more

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A damaged hut in the village of Nandavanam.

Villagers in Tamil Nadu, with water up to their knees.

A team of Bajaj Allianz insurance specialists wades along a flooded road.

A claimant signs an acceptance declaration.

Laughing children in the village of Kheezhvelur.

Finance Microinsurance after Cyclone Nisha After Cyclone Nisha devastated the Tamil Nadu coastline in India, Bajaj Allianz ... more

Microinsurance can help protect people in emerging countries fall back into poverty / Credits: Reuters

Finance Reducing the risks of the poor Even if poor families survive catastrophes like droughts, floods or epidemics, ... more

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Women sell items at a Grameen America open house at St. John's University in New York. Originally ... / Credits: Reuters

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In rural Africa, most people have never heard of the insurance, let alone Allianz's products / Credits: Reuters

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Finance: Interview Connecting the poor Reducing costs for microinsurance and microcredits are crucial for their ... more

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Bangladeshi women count money for repayment to a microcredit bank at Dowtia village, near Dhaka / Credits: Reuters

Finance: Interview How business can fight poverty Jacqueline Novogratz, once a rising star in international banking, left the ... more

Indian women are informed about microinsurance advantages. The concept helps the rural population a ... / Credits: Bajaj Allianz

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Susu groups allow small-scale entrepreneurs and informal traders to develop their ... / Credits: Barclays

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