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1. The Provision of Microfinance Services by Savings Banks: Selected Experiences

from Africa, Asia and Latin America

2. Savings in the Context of Microfinance - State of Knowledge

3. Savings Led Microfinance and the Rural Poor

4. The Microfinance Experience with Savings Mobilization

5. Savings mobilisation in microfinance institutions

6. Savings Mobilisation to Micro-Finance: A Historical Perspective on the

Zimbabwe Savings Development Movement

7. Savings and the Poor in Zimbabwe: What It Means for MicroFinance Institutions

8. Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda

9. Introducing Savings into a MicroCredit Institution Lessons from ASA

10. Evolution of Savings Products at ASA

11. "Lessons From Deploying the Remote Transaction System With Three

Microfinance Institutions in Uganda"

1. The Provision of Microfinance Services by Savings Banks: Selected Experiences

from Africa, Asia and Latin America

This paper portrays the experiences of a selection of savings and socially

responsible retail banks in the provision of these services to the poor,

highlighting the characteristics of flexible, affordable, convenient and safe

services that are demanded by this ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

2. Savings in the Context of Microfinance - State of Knowledge

This paper provides a brief overview of the state of knowledge of savings in the

context of microfinance; the paper focuses on the depositor, presenting the main

factors that determine depositor demand for savings facilities and savings

capacity, with special emphasis ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

3. Savings Led Microfinance and the Rural Poor

Microfinance has achieved much in the twenty years since it became recognized as

an important development tool, but the demand for credit and savings services

far exceeds current institutional capacity. While microfinance institutions

effectively deliver services ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

4. The Microfinance Experience with Savings Mobilization

Over the last decade, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have found that poor

households are interested in a variety of savings services and products. Deposit

services allow low-income households to save for large expenses like dowries or

school fees, accumulate ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

5. Savings mobilisation in microfinance institutions

The paper sees that the volume of savings coming from traditional clientele

represents a minimal portion of the total funds mobilized by MFIs. The funding

structure reflects a high dependency/concentration on large depositors (mainly

institutional and of a volatile ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

6. Savings Mobilisation to Micro-Finance: A Historical Perspective on the

Zimbabwe Savings Development Movement

The objectives of the paper are to highlight the factors that have led the

oldest and major saving movement in Zimbabwe to get involved in the

implementation of a credit scheme, and to assess the impact of that change on

the institution itself as well as on its ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

7. Savings and the Poor in Zimbabwe: What It Means for MicroFinance Institutions

This report: focuses on the way the poor manage their money in the Zimbabwean

context, analyses the mechanisms they use or prefer to use to manage their

money, explores linkages between the informal, semi formal and formal

mechanisms, and suggests ways in which ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

8. Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda

There was a prevalent that "the poor cannot save", but throughout Uganda and

indeed the rest of Africa, there is a vibrant and diverse informal financial

sector. This report shares findings that improve knowledge and understanding of

how poor people in Uganda save ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

9. Introducing Savings into a MicroCredit Institution Lessons from ASA

The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) in Bangladesh provides financial

services to 1.5 million poor people, and is one of the best-managed,

large-scale, sustainable, microfinance providers anywhere in the world. ASA

operated a credit delivery and recovery ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

10. Evolution of Savings Products at ASA

Effective measures and client-oriented services, allowed ASA to finally become a

renowned and leading microfinance institution. This article is about saving

services It provides to its clients for their self managed income-generating

projects and helps them be ...

Contributed by PlaNet Finance on 11 March, 2005

11. "Lessons From Deploying the Remote Transaction System With Three

Microfinance Institutions in Uganda"

A Remote Transaction System (RTS) for microfinance institutions was piloted in

2004 in Uganda. This is a report of a study of the RTS done by two graduate

students during three weeks during the pilot project. "At the front-end (which

clients experience) the technology ...

Contributed by John Daly on 14 March, 2005

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