Rebecca Vonderlack and Mark Schreiner

(2002) Development in Practice , Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 602–612.

(2004) Isabelle Guérin and Jean-Michal Servet (eds), Exclusion et liens financiers, Rapport du Centre Walras, Paris: Editions Economica, ISBN 2-7178-4705-7.

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit boxes and for matched savings accounts for health care or education.

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