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This paper examines the financial lives of poor people, using MicroSave’s seasonality analysis, which traces households’ income, expenditure, loans and savings over time.
This paper provides information on the savings products available in India and provides a review of the different options by comparative analysis and by listing out the pros and cons of each.
This Briefing Notes examines the challenges of retailing to illiterate people, and some of the opportunities ahead.
In this video, Marguerite Robinson, Independent Consultant, notes that poor look for certain features in their savings product. These include security, convenience, liquidity, friendly knowledgeable service, confidentiality and access to loans. Marguerite notices that demand driven products and services the low income people want are similar across the world. Further, she also explains each of […]
In this video, James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Bank, Kenya, talks about the effect of global financial crisis on Equity Bank and Kenya. He explains that Equity has not been directly affected by the global financial meltdown but their shareholders have suffered. In relation to this, he explains the importance of savings. Further he adds […]
This note explains the importance of savings services for the clients in the north east region of India and brings forth the finding that poor loose their savings in the absence of any formal source