Village savings and loans: A pathway to financial inclusion for Africa's poorest households
| العنوان: | Village savings and loans: A pathway to financial inclusion for Africa's poorest households |
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| المؤلفون: | Sybil Chidiac, Lauren Hendricks |
| المصدر: | Enterprise Development and Microfinance. 22:134-146 |
| بيانات النشر: | Practical Action Publishing, 2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Financial inclusion, Consumption (economics), Extremely Poor, Microfinance, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Development, law.invention, law, Debt, Development economics, Economics, Rural area, media_common |
| الوصف: | For Africa's poorest and most marginalized households, few financial institutions exist to serve them, and where institutions do exist they generally have inappropriate products and services. To address the issue of financial inclusion and reach poorer clients, CARE began promoting a savings-led microfinance model, called Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs). The VSLA model is based on the belief that for the extremely poor, particularly women, the best approach is to begin by building their financial assets and skills through savings rather than debt. Through participation in a VSLA members can diversify their activities, plant additional crops and even add new income-generating activities. At the same time, they are able to save and borrow in ways that allow them to smooth cyclical household consumption patterns. Now more than ever before, we see VSLAs as an important, and often necessary, rung on the ladder of financial inclusion. |
| تدمد: | 1755-1986 1755-1978 |
| DOI: | 10.3362/1755-1986.2011.016 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::756f6689b59a59df98f4dd601a695234 https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.2011.016 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........756f6689b59a59df98f4dd601a695234 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17551986 17551978 |
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| DOI: | 10.3362/1755-1986.2011.016 |