Last week, the Government of Canada introduced a financial literacy bill designed to help debt-burdened Canadians manage their money.
Character, Personality and Trust
Who do you trust? Savings Groups help you find out.
A Savings Group meeting in exactly two minutes
Here's a great meeting from Niger, accelerated and annotated.
Simplify, Simplify
In the US, where I live, Christmas has become a commerical feast,
A Short History Of SG Conferences
About every two years for the last decade, there has been an international Savings Group conference. The next one is happening in Kigali on May 22-24 2018
Kudos and Lessons from one Movement to Another
I still love this speech, many years later....
The SG Poverty Action Team
How SGs can be best at combating poverty.
Stop Using the “L” Word
Maybe the problem of dormancy is related to agency...
What good are Savings Groups to poor people, really?
Dale Adams and Hugh Allen debate the real benefit to poor people of Savings Groups
S.G. Phone Home
World Relief invites its mature groups to self-report on their progress with a simple cell phone app.
Greeting as a Basic Human Need
A very poor Malian woman joined Nyesigiso - the big network of cooperatives in Mali that I was then the director of. Remarkably she ...
Now, THAT'S a banking procedure!
If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, scroll to about 1:05 minutes into it, where there is a very lively savings group meeting.
Unbanking the Banked
Despite the recent development fad to get people banked, banked people are becoming unbanked.
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.
Making share-out easier
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein
Diffusion - Why ROSCAs Best ASCAs
Kim Wilson asks the question that many are afraid to ask!
Oliver Mobeli, Music and Puppet Band
A delightful musician and puppet performer from the Central African Republic!
Savings Groups in Missouri
What do you really need to form a savings group?
How about… a committed person?
More Emotion, Less Passion
I wonder how the word emotional got such a bad rap in English.