Resources on social finance
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Article
Emerging Insight: Clients prefer flexible contribution levels and focus on wealth accumulation in savings products
01 March 2023
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Publication
Social Finance Brief: Dvara KGFS
23 January 2023
Dvara KGFS is a non-banking financial company serving more than a million customers and enterprises in rural areas of India. This Social Finance Brief describes their integrated risk management product “Dvara Sampoorna Sampath” and how it helps households in India with risk protection and wealth creation.
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Selling insurance through agent networks
22 November 2022
Distribution is one of the biggest obstacles in offering insurance services to low-income households, small enterprises and rural communities. Digital channels offer new opportunities, but a more high-touch model is often needed to educate households about insurance and to build trust. Agent networks, such as those used in banking and microfinance, can help address some of these challenges faced in insurance. This brief presents ten lessons from banks, MFIs and existing experiences of insurers in establishing and using agent networks, laying out the different ways these networks can operate.
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Emerging Insight: Making the right tweaks to provide effective emergency loans
02 June 2021
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Social Finance Brief: Designing emergency loans - the experience of Dvara KGFS
28 April 2021
Dvara KGFS is a non-banking financial company (NBFC) based in India. Since its inception in 2008, Dvara KGFS has strived to build a unique model to meet the financial needs of rural customers to promote wealth creation. Over the past few years, Dvara KGFS has worked on offering a redesigned emergency loan product.
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Emerging Insight: Women can become powerful advocates for insurance within local communities
27 August 2020
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Emerging Insight: Postal networks are facilitating doorstep banking during COVID-19
22 May 2020