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A Critical Review of Savings Services in Africa and Elsewhere

This paper reviews what motivates poor people to save and how MFIs might assist, while still retaining the MFIs’ focus on profitable operations and on sustainability.

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Reviving Postal Savings Banks In East Africa

This paper highlights the importance of savings services in lives of poor and correlates experience of different countries in ensuring safe savings services to the poor through postal savings banks

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Savings And The Poor: The Methods, Use And Impact Of Savings By The Poor Of East Africa

This report is about how the East African poor manage their money, and how microfinance institutions (MFIs) might help them do it better.

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Use and Impact of Savings Services for Poor People in Kenya

The paper argues that it is time to move away from the preoccupation with “raising income” to focusing on “improving net wealth and income security”.

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Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda

This report shares findings that improve knowledge and understanding of how poor people in Uganda save with the informal mechanisms like banks, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, money guards, deposit collectors, ROSCAs, ASCAs

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Beyond basic credit and savings: Developing new financial service products for the poor

The paper examines the need for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to offer their clients new financial products.