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Monthly Archives: August 2014

A Response to Dean Karlan’s ‘Next Stage of Financial Inclusion.’

August 25, 2014by Jeff Ashe 4 Comments

In Dean Karlan’s “The Next Stage of Financial Inclusion,” Dean makes the point that NGOs have had a vital role in creating new markets and reaching populations that are not profitable […]

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Why Savings Groups?

August 16, 2014by Jeff Ashe Leave a comment

Savings groups are a robust, simple, catalytic innovation where small groups are trained to manage their own mini-financial institutions. Members save what they can in a communal pot and loan […]

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