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2020 | Pete Sparreboom & Mbinya Mutiso (Savings at the Frontier)
This focus note describes the low-cost, practical methods that SatF and its partner FSPs have developed to make outreach to clients in underserved areas viable. These methods build on the incr…
2020 | Access to Finance Rwanda
Savings Groups and microfinance institutions remain key players in Rwanda's financial sector serving a majority of the population. COVID-19 poses serious risks both health and economic because…
2019 | Christina Wieser, Miriam Bruhn, Johannes Kinzinger, Christian Ruckteschler & Soren Heitmann (World Bank Group)
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with anothe…
2019 | Alexandra Löwe & Susan Njambi-Szlapka (Overseas Development Institute) & Sanyu Phiona (Development Research and Training, Uganda)
The Youth Empowerment Through Agriculture (YETA) programme, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, addresses the employment challenges faced by young people in mid-Western and Northern…
2019 | Alexandra Avdeenkoa, Albrecht Bohneb & Markus Frölichc
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to…
2019 | Jamie Anderson, Danielle Hopkins & Myra Valenzuela (CGAP)
What roles do financial services play in enabling youth education and employment? One billion young people in low-income countries are navigating their transition into adulthood and enga…
2019 | Shilpa Aggarwal, Valentina Brailovskaya & Jonathan Robinson
We test whether the provision of multiple labeled savings accounts affects savings decisions and downstream outcomes in a field experiment with 481 entrepreneurs in urban Malawi. Treatment re…
2019 | Benjamin Crookston, Josh West, Bobbi Gray & Alison Bardsley (Grameen Foundation)
The Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities in Burkina Faso (BRB) project leveraged women’s savings groups as a platform to provide complementary services in nutrition and agri…
2016 | Plan International
Plan International's A Working Future youth economic empowerment programme has proven that partnerships between the development and corporate sectors can successfully address social issues and…
2019 | The SEEP Network
These 10 tips are a product of the SEEP Network’s peer learning group on Savings Groups for Refugees – composed of representatives from the Danish Refugee Council, the Fletcher Sch…
2019 | Ashley Wheaton (SEEP Network)
Worldwide, about 80 percent of Savings Group members are women (SAVIX 2019). Gendered participation rates in Savings Groups mirror those of the microfinance sector, which set a precedent of em…
2019 | World Savings Banks Institute
Banks that want to accelerate financial inclusion should focus on young people in Africa, understand their lives and needs better, and offer them appropriate and tailored products. These are a…
2019 | Zoë Sutherland, Megan Gash, Daniel Joloba (Itad)
This report describes the findings of an ex-post evaluation of the Expanding Financial Inclusion (EFI) program, delivered by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and implementing partners in Burkina…
2019 | Paul Rippey (Grassroots Finance)
Between 2017 and 2019, World Relief (WR) and Grassroots Finance (GF) launched an experiment in Dedza District of Malawi. The two partners wanted to see if nudges, that is, non-coercive, low or…
2019 | Stephen Peachey and Mbinya Mutiso (Savings at the Frontier)
Lack of proximity has long been identified as an obstacle to sustained take-up – and sustained use – of formal financial services. Through this decade, funding and specialist skill…
2019 | Itad
This report is based on an in-depth review of 44 studies that examine the effects of a range of youth savings initiatives. The definition of youth in this sample of studies ranges from 5&ndash…
2019 | Jeffrey Ashe (University of New Hampshire) and Kim Wilson (Tufts University)
The American Dream—being able to earn a good living, buy a home, send children to school, and build a life in the United States regardless of social stature or place of birth—is an…
2019 | Allison Bardsley and Bobbi Gray (Grameen Foundation)
The Grameen Foundation program, “Women’s Savings Groups for Better Reproductive Health in Bénin” advanced opportunities for rural women and their husbands to make choi…
2019 | Benjamin Allen & Mabel Guevara (Catholic Relief Services)
El presente informe muestra los resultados del estudio multimetodológico en tres países sobre la efectividad de las lecciones de Educación financiera (EF) desarrolladas en…
2019 | Benjamin Allen & Mabel Guevara (Catholic Relief Services)
This report presents the results from a three-country, multi-method study of the effectiveness of CRS’ Financial Education (FE) lessons delivered in the context of Savings and Internal L…
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