Savings Recommended Reading

Savings Booklet: Optimising Performance and Efficiency Series

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Microsave, MicroSave, 2010
Providing insight into savings issues

Deepening Outreach through Credit Unions: A Review of the WOCCU Ecuador Rural Savings and Credit with Education (CREER) Project (Research Monograph)

(1 rating)
Grell, S., World Council of Credit Unions, 2007
Replicating a successful lending and saving program with an education component

Savings Services for the Poor - An Old Need and A New Opportunity for MFIs in India

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Kapoor, S., MicroSave, 2008
This MicroSave India Focus note focuses on the business correspondent model of savings.

Safe and Accessible: Bringing Poor Savers into the Formal Financial System

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Deshpande, R., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 2006
CGAP Focus Note No. 37 examines the obstacles, opportunities and strategies for improving savings mobilization.

Poor Peoples' Savings: Q&As with Experts

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CGAP Savings Information Resource Center, CGAP Savings Information Resource Center, 2006
A compilation of 15 expert views on savings demand, products, delivery models, and policy issues

Asset-Building for Microenterprise through Matched Savings in Low-Income Countries

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Schreiner, M., Center for Social Development, Washington University, 2004
Can Individual Development Accounts help the self-employed poor in low-income countries build assets?

Access to Finance in Andhra Pradesh

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Johnson, D. & Meka, S., , CMF, 2010
Results from pioneering household survey on access to finance

Being Able to Make (Small) Deposits and Payments, Anywhere

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Mas, I., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 2008
CGAP Focus Note No. 45 describes an alternative, systemic approach to branchless banking

Microsavings Programs: Assessing Demand and Impact - A Critical Review of the Literature

(2 ratings)
Devaney, P., IRIS Center, Microfinance Opportunities, 2006
A review of the empirical studies focused on savings products and services for the poor.

Who are the Clients of Savings Banks? A Poverty Assessment of the Clients Reached by Savings Banks in India, Mexico, Tanzania, and Thailand

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World Bank Savings Institute (WBSI), World Savings Banks Institute, 2008
Using CGAP’s Poverty Assessment Tool (PAT) to measure outreach by saving banks

Mobilizing Savings from the Public : Basic Principles and Practices

(2 ratings)
Robinson, M., U.S. Agency for International Development, Women's World Banking, 2004
Why is savings an important part of microfinance?

Who are the Clients of Savings Banks? A Poverty Assessment of the Clients Reached By Savings Banks in India, Mexico, Tanzania and Thailand (Brief)

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World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI), World Savings Banks Institute, 2008
Measuring outreach by saving banks

Report on Savings Mobilization by Microfinance Institutions in Sri Lanka

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FJ & G de Saram, GTZ, 2009
Reviewing legal position of deposit taking practices of MFIs

Savings Banks and the Double Bottom-line: A Profitable and Accessible Model of Finance

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Peachey, S., World Savings Banks Institute, European Savings Bank Group (ESBG), 2006
A study commissioned by World Savings Banks Institute for the World Bank and Brookings Institute’s global conference "Access to Finance: Building Inclusive Financial Systems", Washington, D.C., May 2006.

Empowering Rwanda Youth through Savings-led Microfinance

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Mukankusi, A., Mayson, M., Caso, T. & Rowe, W., Catholic Relief Services, 2009
Introducing savings-led microfinance methodology to orphans and vulnerable children

Youth Savings in Developing Countries

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YouthSave Consortium, YouthSave Consortium, 2010
Exploring the potential of youth savings accounts

Review of Savings Options for MFIs in India

(1 rating)
George, D. et al., MicroSave, 2010
Savings products options available for MFIs

Scope Economies of Lending and Collecting Deposits in Microfinance Institutions

(2 ratings)
Hartarska, M. & Parmeter, C., International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009
Paper presented at "International Association of Agricultural Economists", August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China

New Frontiers in Micro-Savings

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Counts, A. & Meriweather, P., Grameen Foundation, 2008
Collecting savings deposits for the continued growth of the microfinance sector

Introducing Voluntary Savings

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Islam, S., WWB, 2006
Guiding MFIs in the introduction of voluntary savings products

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