The objective of micro-insurance is to insure in a profitable way low-income population in developing countries. As difficult as it may seem, it has already been achieved by large insurers, who see this emergent sector as key for successful internationalization. Micro-insurance is indeed gaining speed for a reason : It represents a long awaited alternative to households’ informal risk management strategies, which despite their omnipresence often prove defective. Micro-insurance products mainly rely on partnerships between professional insurers and microfinance institutions (MFI) having already built significant confidence among their population. Emerging countries are thus in the process of structuring genuine «microbankinsurance» markets, ...