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Savings

SAVINGS

SAVINGS

Access to savings products provides low-income households with a critical financial resource that promotes asset development and protects against shocks. Often, poor households in rural India do not use savings products owing to reasons that may be structural (no reliable institutions to deliver savings products) or behavioural (lack of financial literacy about the value of savings). IFMR LEAD’s Centre for Microfinance (CMF) engages in research studies to help poor households overcome barriers to formal savings and to measure the effectiveness of various savings products. Recently, CMF researchers piloted a study on how financial literacy training impacted rural households’ financial behaviour. CMF is also exploring the effectiveness of incentives on savings behaviour, and how, in a technologically advanced environment, peer networks might help individuals mitigate psychological barriers and mobilize savings.

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Evaluating FINO’s Financial Literacy Education Program

Savings Monitor: Deploying Local Social Networks to Mobilize Savings

The Role of Financial Access, Knowledge and Service Delivery in Savings Behavior and Welfare in Bihar

WINDFALL OR DOWNFALL: TIME INCONSISTENT BEHAVIOUR IN THE ABSENCE OF MICROFINANCE

A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL OF A SOFT COMMITMENT PRODUCT: A PILOT

Equity Investment in Microfinance

The Economics and Psychology of Long-term Savings and Pensions (On-going)

The Importance of Social Networks in Determining the Uptake of Microfinance

Financing Practices in SHG

Impact Evaluation of Hand-in-Hand Self-Help Group Programme

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