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Meet the Practitioner: Savings In Pakistan >

by on Apr 3, 2013  |  posted in Savings  |  6 Comments

Meet the Practitioner: Savings in Pakistan from SEEP Network on Vimeo.

Thanks for joining us to hear Aban Haq, Chief Operating Officer of the Pakistan Microfinance Network and Jesse Fripp, Vice President of Shorebank International reflect on savings in Pakistan via video streaming.

Over the past few years, PMN and SBI have teamed up to investigate small savings mobilization resulting in several important … Read More >

Meet the Practitioner with Guy Stuart >

by on Mar 25, 2013  |  posted in Savings  |  1 Comment

 

Please continue to leave your questions and comments in the comments section below. SEEP staff and Guy will continue to check and respond.

Thanks for joining us for the live video interview with Guy Stuart, Executive Director of Microfinance Opportunities. Guy provided feedback on the recently released Savings as a Cornerstone, a report on the state … Read More >

Do mobile savings services exclude women? How do savings products affect liquidity? Learning from the Grameen Foundation in India and the Philippines >

by on Mar 14, 2013  |  posted in Savings, Uncategorized  |  0 Comments

More than one-third of the world’s population lack access to financial services, including a savings account. Safe, reliable, and easily accessible savings services are essential to helping the poor out move out of poverty but are lacking in many parts of the world. In order to address this issue, SEEP member Grameen Foundation created the Microsavings … Read More >

Scaling up formal savings: Lessons from the SEEP Annual Conference >

by on Dec 1, 2011  |  posted in Savings  |  2 Comments

The workshops in the Formal Savings Track of the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference tackled questions that many of us face when it comes to savings:

Is there a business case?

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How do I design a savings product that is relevant and that clients will value?

What changes do I need to manage in order … Read More >

Day One in Arusha: Savings groups and poverty downreach >

by on Oct 5, 2011  |  posted in Savings  |  0 Comments

The road to Arusha, Tanzania. | Image by Kat Stan

In the afternoon of the first day of the Arusha Savings Groups Summit, I participated in a small group discussion about the poverty levels that savings groups are best suited to, and the levels that savings groups reach among their members.  As facilitator of SEEP’s … Read More >

Day One in Arusha: Should financial services be consolidated? >

by on Oct 5, 2011  |  posted in Savings  |  0 Comments

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This is the question I posed to you in the blog world at the end of my last post.  When I asked this during a small group discussion at the Arusha Savings Groups Summit, the response was a slight pause, a discussion leader saying “Yes, I think we do quite incorrectly … Read More >

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