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Micro Insurance: Agenda for the future of underprivileged

Insurance Research & Analysis -
Wed, 10/22/2008 - 23:24


Micro
Insurance mainly covers people who work in the informal economy as
there is no effective mechanism to reach them systematically. Moreover,
many of them are self-employed or are working in informal
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