A Critical Typology of Financial Services for the Poor

Publication Date: Nov 1996
Published by: Action Aid
Document Type: Paper

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Reviewing the range of systems that deliver finance to the poor

This paper explores the range of indigenous systems of financial service provision for the poor and demonstrates the diverse and ingenious systems devised to enable poor people to better manage their finances
It highlights the need for practitioners:

• to learn from financial services that already exist before designing new programmes
• to innovate and experiment with a wider range of services beyond savings and credit