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2020 | Nisha Singh (Independent Consultant), Diana Dezso (Savings Learning Lab), Savings at the Frontier & PHB Development
This paper provides an overview of how agents are an essential component of delivering customer value to excluded populations such as informal savers. Based on the experiences of financial ser…
2019 | Lena Weingärtner (Overseas Development Institute), Catherine Simonet (Ramboll) & John Choptiany (iDE)
In this report, we explore how BRACED projects support the development and delivery of tailored-to-context financial services. We also assess to what extent these projects are integrated withi…
2019 | Vincent Somville (Chr. Michelsen Institute and NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen) & Lore Vandewalley (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Access to formal banking is increasing across the world and may transform how people manage their nances. We report from a eld experiment that randomly provides access to a bank account to a…
2020 | Peter Morgan & Trinh Q. Long (Asian Development Bank Institute)
This study examines the effects of financial literacy on financial inclusion and savings behavior in Laos. Compared to previous literature, we use a broader definition of financial literacy wh…
2020 | Mehrdad Mirpourian (Women's World Banking)
Well-designed financial products improve the overall financial health of users. The design of products is particularly important for low-income customers, for whom product design drives behavi…
2020 | Aurélie Larquemin (Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath)
Enabling everybody to benefit from regulated financial services has become a global policy goal. However, while access to accounts is increasing, use of accounts remains low. This micro-level…
2019 | Kwarteng Amaning Theophilus (Bureau of Integrated Rural Development) & Sarfo-Mensah Paul (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
In this paper we examined how participation in Savings Groups like the Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) influence women’s agency in rural Ghana, i.e. their ability to freel…
2020 | Markus Frölich & P Linh Nguyen (3ie)
While the Zambian financial sector has shown moderate development over the past decade, lack of consumer awareness, low-cost products and financial literacy are challenges keeping financial in…
2019 | Thomas De Hoop, Carinne Brody, Stuti Tripathi, Martina Vojtkova & Ruby Warnock (3ie)
Women bear an unequal share of the burden of poverty globally, due to societal and structural barriers to equality. One way that governments, development agencies and grassroots women’s…
2020 | Aisha Rahamatali & George Muruka (CARE International)
In 2019, SEEP convened a Peer Learning Group (PLG) comprised of both government and civil society social protection programs to explore the Role of Savings Groups in Supporting Graduation from…
2020 | Erin Lewis (The BOMA Project) & Yéréfolo Mallé (Trickle Up)
In 2019, SEEP convened a Peer Learning Group (PLG) comprised of both government and civil society social protection programs to explore the Role of Savings Groups in Supporting Graduation from…
2020 | George Muruka & Aisha Rahamatali (CARE International)
In 2019, SEEP convened a Peer Learning Group (PLG) comprised of both government and civil society social protection programs to explore the Role of Savings Groups in Supporting Graduation from…
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…
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