Insurance products standards to reach low-income consumers in South Africa: Help or hindrance? A review of the experience of Mzansi and Zimele insurance product standards

This study illustrates the experience of collective industry’s initiatives launched between 2005 and 2008 to support the development of the low-income insurance and savings markets in South Africa. It assesses the impact of these initiatives which emerged from the Financial Sector Charter, a charter promoting black economic empowerment.