savings

A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...

Teaching women in Kenya to visualise alternative future scenarios based on current behaviour increased chlorination of drinking water, reduced children’s diarrhoea, and improved savings after almost three years

Grants and finance can alleviate poverty traps associated with lumpy investments, but the impact on development depends on the supply of investment goods

Improving access to saving tools helps urban Malawian microentrepreneurs save and adjust labour supply decisions

Mobile money agents need additional support to transform lives in poor rural areas

Encouraging the poor to set higher savings aspirations may backfire if they fall short of these goals, leading to less economic investment

Financial literacy training increases short-term knowledge and savings, but does not determine long-term financial success

Access to mobile savings accounts and financial management skills can lead to improved profits and financial security of female-led micro-enterprises

Having the option of getting paid later can help developing-country workers save for larger purchases, and make lasting improvements to their homes