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Social Protection: Microinsurance in the Spotlight

Microinsurance offers families in poor countries protection from destitution. Increasing access to health, life and accident insurance helps vulnerable people being propelled into further privation, writes Amy Yee in The Guardian.

Yee highlights the clear benefits of microinsurance, as across the world, low-income communities are often shut out of financial services, such as savings accounts, insurance or mortgages, because they cannot afford premiums of fees, lack formal or regular jobs, collateral, identification or credit...

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