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Micro-life insurance on rise

4 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Banking and financial services / Economy and commerce / Investment
Cambodian Microfinance Association / collateral / Dangkor District / Debt / debt servicing / France / health insurance group / insurance / insurance company / insurance program / Khem Sary / lower-income borrowers / MEADA / Measure for Economic and Accelerated Development for All / MFI / MFI loans / micro-insurance / Microfinance / Microfinance institutions / Norng Makara / Phnom Penh / PKMI / Prevoir Kampuchea Micro-life Insurance / Prevoir life / Samic Microfinance

When 46-year-old Than Thol got a $900 loan from Samic Microfinance last year, he took advantage of a little-known and lengthily worded insurance program called Measure for Economic and Accelerated Development for All, or MEADA. MEADA provides coverage for families of mostly lower-income borrowers in the ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466033/Business/micro-life-insurance-on-rise.html

Cambodian Pawnshop Revenues Drop as Industry Expands

14 June 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Investment
brokers / business / collateral / decline / Government / increase in competition / interest rates / Khlaing Rum Sev pawnshop / licensed pawnshops / Ly Seng Cheng / market / Ministry of Economy and Finance / oversaturation / pawnbrokers / Pawnshop Revenues / Pawnshops / registered businesses / sale / stolen goods / Tuol Kok district

The number of licensed pawnshops in the country has surged since the government began registering them in 2010, leaving some pawnbrokers claiming revenue losses of 30 to 50 percent due to oversaturation in the market. Ly Seng Cheng, a pawnbroker at the Khlaing Rum Sev pawnshop ...

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