Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly

4/2022

Informal sector

Social protection for everyone

Informal workers deserve to be shielded from shocks such as sickness and unemployment

Social protection

Financing health systems for informal workers

Many informal workers cannot afford to pay cost-covering contributions, so cross-subsidisation is often needed

Digitalisation

Marketing digital microinsurance

Increased use of mobile phones and mobile payment systems opens up unexpected possibilities for insuring disadvantaged people