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This note briefly discusses the savings needs of poor people in various stages of their lives and categorises the expenditures into life cycle events, emergencies and opportunities.
This BN targets savings from two perspectives: The Poor, who traditionally prefer “structured and committed savings mechanisms and the MFIs, who “tend to use a strategy of ‘permanence and growth’.
This paper discusses how low-income people in South Africa (SA) save, how they use different savings services/systems and the impact of these savings facilities on their household budgets/lives.
The study is based on qualitative and quantitative research to assess risks involved in saving informally as compared to saving through institutions in semi-formal and the formal sector in Uganda.
This study shows the importance of savings for smoothing out peaks and troughs in income and expenditure in Zambia
This note focuses on voluntary savings services, as compulsory savings services have witnessed drop outs in East Africa and Bangladesh.