Experimenting with piggy banks for livelihoods
Picture yourself as a working-woman in rural Bihar. Lucky for you, at this time, it’s the three to four months in which you get a daily ...
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How to Increase Formal Savings for the Papad-Makers of Dharavi Slum
We feature a post by Mudita Tiwari and Deepti Kc, featured on the Financial Access Initiative blog. In Dharavi, Mumbai, the largest urba...
Is Financial Literacy Worth it?
Financial literacy is a complex thing . A broad way of thinking about it is, as the skill to manage one’s financial reso...
Financial Inclusion - The Challenges of Implementation
CMF's Savings Monitors Study provided me an opportunity to get a first hand feel of some of the challenges faced in implementing f...
Why do Indians buy gold?
India is one of the biggest markets for gold and gold loans. Reasons for this are spread across various social, economic and cultural dimen...
Savings Video Documentary by CMF - How do poor people save?
Hi there blog readers The year is coming to a close and as a member of the Knowledge Management team at CMF, I am really pleased at th...
SPARK Presentation: Savings Products - Understanding What Works
In this Spark session , Nikhil & Kenny throw light on how behavioral economics and observations from studies on marketing and technolo...
Is Safe Box all you need to save towards the next savings goal?
Helping the poor save more towards a specific goal, could be as simple as providing them a safe, secure device for savings - something as s...
To Commit or not to Commit: Perspectives from a Research Paper
As part of the savings month, we at CMF have also been reading and discussing various academic papers. Last week, I happen to lead the dis...
Why can't Saraswati save? Understanding her dilemma!
Saraswati- an urban maid making Rs. 7,000/ month dreams of sending her children to college one day. Whenever asked why she is working, sh...
Can “Text Messages” from the Bank help you save more?
Courtesy: First Southern National Bank Barring a few committed ones, we all struggle to save more towards our future expenses, vacatio...
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