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Microinsurance can play an important part in helping people in poorer parts of the world become self sufficient. Richard Leftley looks at the role the industry can play in widening its impact

More than 2.4 billion people in the developing world live on less than $2 a day, and 97% of these currently have no access to formal insurance products. Furthermore, some 70% of the global poor live

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