Resources on social finance

  1. Publication

    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.

  2. Project documentation

    NRSP - Pakistan

    30 December 2015

  3. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #58: Microinsurance and Child Labour

    02 February 2015

    An impact evaluation of NRSP’s (Pakistan) microinsurance innovation

  4. Publication

    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.

  5. Publication

    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.

  6. Publication

    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.

  7. Project documentation

    MF4DW: Newsflash August 2012

    15 November 2011

    MF4DW Project Newsletter