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2020 | Scale2Save
A new case study report from Scale2Save looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed bank customer behaviour in Africa. The study shows that customers have increased their borrowing from fr…
2019 | Viviane Azevedo (IDB Invest), Liliana Olarte (Y Analytics), Jeanne Lafortune & José Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
We use a randomized control trial to evaluate why text message (SMS) reminders may have worked in previous studies to incentivize savings. Using a sample of poor to middle-income Paraguayans,…
2020 | Global Communities
The USAID/Twiyubake program developed a learning agenda to determine the impact of saving incentives on the resilience of vulnerable households in 2018. This learning brief explores the follow…
2020 | The SEEP Network
Over the last 25 years, Savings Groups have emerged as a key financial inclusion strategy in underserved markets, and development organizations have formed about 700,000 groups composed of 14…
2020 | Anne Marie van Swinderen (L-IFT)
Over the last 25 years, Savings Groups have emerged as a key financial inclusion strategy in underserved markets, and development organizations have formed about 700,000 groups composed of 14…
2018 | Simiyu Mercy Nekesa & Dr. Tobias Olweny (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology)
This study's main objective was to investigate the effects of financial innovation on financial performance of deposit-taking SACCOs in Kajiado County. Past studies give an insight into what h…
2020 | Waleed M.Al-ahdala, Mohammed H.Alsamhib, Mosab I.Tabashc & Najib H.S.Farhand
Corporate governance plays a vital role in creating a corporate culture of consciousness, transparency, and openness. In this context, this paper provides a brief view about the background of…
2019 | Njagi Charles Mugendi, Dr. Paul Gichohi & Abel Moguche (Kenya Methodist University)
SACCOs are experiencing wealth maximization challenges which can be attributed to their savings strategy. This paper investigated the influence of savings strategy on wealth maximization of sa…
2019 | Mayada El-Zoghbi, Nina Holle & Matthew Soursourian (CGAP)
Research on the impact of financial services on the lives of low-income people provides valuable insights. However, these studies tend to focus on microcredit or a single financial product, su…
2019 | Aidan Coville, Vincenzo Di Maro, Felipe Alexander Dunsch & Siegfried Zottel (World Bank)
This paper investigates the immediate and medium-term behavioral response to an emotional trigger designed to affect biases in intertemporal financial decisions. The emotional trigger is provi…
2019 | Nika Naghavi (GSMA)
2019 marked a major milestone for the mobile money industry: the number of registered mobile money accounts surpassed one billion. This year’s State of the Industry Report looks at what…
2015 | Emily Breza & Arun G. Chandrasekhar (National Bureau of Economic Research)
We conduct a field experiment with 1,300 participants in India to measure whether individuals save more when information about their savings is regularly shared with another member of their vi…
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…
2020 | Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, & Hai-Anh H. Dang
This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women’s self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Metho…
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…
2018 | CARE International
Care CIV through Care Nederland has received funding from the H & M Foundation to implement the Women in Enterprise project. This project has two phases, one of which is more focused on en…
2019 | CARE International in Zimbabwe
CARE International in Zimbabwe (CIZ) implemented a twelve months emergency intervention programme titled ‘Assisting vulnerable food insecure household recovery from mid-season drought an…
2020 | Alfredo Burlando (University of Oregon), Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland) and Luciana Etcheverry (University of Oregon)
Traditional banks and microfinance institutions lend directly to clients using individual or joint liability contracts, and generally have strict rules on selection and repayments. In most ru…
2018 | VisionFund International
During the period of September to December 2018, VisionFund assessed 215 groups, representing more than 6,700 members in West Nile, Uganda to analyze their savings and lending activity, the pr…
2019 | Katherine Rickard (Nathan Associates)
As Savings Groups increasingly serve as a pillar of gender-focused programs, there is a need to better understand the pathways between Savings Groups and women’s empowerment. The purpose…
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