Even Comcast, with revenue of 85 billion dollars a year, is approachable, if you know how to approach them.
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A Study of Atypical Groups in Mali
Very informative study that shines a lot of light on the reality of SGs - good and not so good.
Six Things to be Curious About
I came up with the following list of six questions that, to me, are much more interesting than Model and Methodology questions.
Featured Article: Coming your way (like it or not) Digital Savings Groups
It's time to set aside everything you know about Savings Group bookkeeping, security, procedures and cash management. Open your mind VERY wide while you read this article.
Banked SG members
Are you in a Savings Group at the same time you have a bank account? Please let us know why!
Volunteerism or Fee-for-Service?
What's the best way to keep trainers training? (Hint: they don't work for money, but they need money to work).
Inside a Banker's Mind
The other day I had lunch with an old acquaintance, an African banker.
When Money Flows into Informal Groups
I had the pleasure of being at the end of a distinguished chain passing along a new study.
Savings Groups or MFI groups: Which give a better deal?
He explores one of the most fundamental assumptions of microfinance—that it reduces the costs of borrowing and saving for the poor.
The Unfun
Kim takes down Dean Karlan, who for no good reason seems to be taking down informal mechanisms.
Early Antarctic Savings Groups
Twenty-two castaways are struggling to maintain hope on Elephant Island, a barren and frozen speck halfway between Cape Horn and Antarctica.
Let's Look Before We Leap
I recently was asked to read a draft of an academic paper on the pitfalls of microcredit and the virtues of savings groups. The paper ...
2014: Some Reflections
Having done virtually no field work this year I’ve had more time away from the minutiae of individual projects to follow some of the broader themes I find interesting and relevant.
Saving Money and Developing Enterprise Activities: A Virtuous Circle.
Recent research has decisively challenged the perception that poor people do not save
New Research from CRS
Compares CRS’s fee-for-service savings-group model against the more conventional project-paid savings-group model.
A Practical Approach to HIV/AIDS
The model shatters the myth that people affected by HIV/AIDS cannot save or carry out productive activity.
Decision Fatigue
There is something to this, even though the experiment that Kim describes is WEIRD.
Read this thoughtful essay after you read Kim Wilson's post with the similar name. Really....