Tag
savings
2 findings
DevelopmentAsset Accumulation and Savings PersistenceParticipants increased savings or asset ownership in 9 out of 10 evaluations examining asset accumulation; in Tunisia, participants retained significantly higher home, livestock, and furniture ownership 5 years post-program despite a 5 percentage point drop in employment probability.Meta-AnalysisFinance & microfinanceDifferential Binding Constraints Across Financial Product MarketsTake-up for offered savings accounts was only ~1 percentage point (9 total individuals) and microloans near zero (2 individuals), whereas micro-insurance take-up surged by 25.1 to 28.0 percentage points (p < 0.01).RCT