It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Losses Suffered by People Saving in Uganda

• by Leonard Mutesasira and Graham Wright
• May 1, 2002
• 1 min
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The paper provides details of the richness and complexity of poor people’s attempts at saving in the informal sector and their successes, failures and losses as they do so.

Presents the qualitative research data – the experiences of poor people trying to save using informal sector mechanisms – from the “Relative Risks to the Savings of the Poor” paper. The paper provides details of the richness and complexity of poor people’s attempts at saving in the informal sector and their successes, failures and losses as they do so.