Resources on social finance
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Impact Insurance Working Paper #55: Actuarial analysis of the Federal Sehat Sahulat Program
01 April 2019
Pakistan has made great strides in health coverage, offering valuable in-patient cover to some of the most vulnerable members of society through the Sehat Sahulat Program, an initiative of the federal government and the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2018, an independent actuarial study of the Program was commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. This report captures the key findings and recommendations of this study.
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Project documentation
NRSP - Pakistan
30 December 2015
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Social Finance Working Paper #58: Microinsurance and Child Labour
02 February 2015
An impact evaluation of NRSP’s (Pakistan) microinsurance innovation
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Impact Insurance Research Paper #41: Integrated health insurance for the urban working poor
01 June 2014
The objective of this study was to conduct a community-based retrospective analysis of primary, secondary and tertiary care utilization over a 12 month period by 5000 urban slum dwellers in the context of an integrated health insurance plan (outpatient and inpatient) that was introduced by Naya Jeevan into Sultanabad (an urban slum in Karachi) during the 2013 calendar year.
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Case Brief #7: Naya Jeevan
01 April 2014
Financing health for low income households is a significant challenge. Naya Jeevan is trying an innovative approach: in order to make quality health services affordable to low-income workers in Pakistan, it seeks sponsors to pay the majority of the premium on behalf of workers whom they employ or have a business relationship with.
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Impact Insurance Research Paper #32: Can microinsurance help prevent child labour?
01 May 2013
Child labour is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. Research Paper #32 explores how reducing vulnerability through insurance impacts child labour and schooling. Using the case of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution, the study finds that increased insurance coverage results in lower incidence of child labour and reduced earnings from child labour. The effect is largely attributed to an ex-ante feeling of protection as opposed to a shock-mitigation effect.
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Project documentation
MF4DW: Newsflash August 2012
15 November 2011
MF4DW Project Newsletter