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References for Products and policies to promote saving in developing countries
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Further reading
- Demirguc-Kunt, A., Klapper, L. Measuring Financial Inclusion: The Global Findex Database World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.6025, 2012.
- Karlan, D. "Helping the poor save more" Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2010.
- Karlan, D., Ratan, A. L., Zinman, J. Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda Center for Global Development Working Paper No.346, 2013.
- Xu, L., Zia, B. Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview of the Evidence with Practical Suggestions for the Way Forward World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.6107, 2012.
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Key references
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Brune, L., Gine, X., Goldberg, J., Yang, D. Commitments to
Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper No.5748, 2011. Key reference: [1]
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Dupas, P., Robinson, J. "Savings constraints
and microenterprise development: Evidence from a field
experiment in Kenya" American Economic
Journal: Applied Economics 5:1 (2013): 163–192. Key reference: [2]
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Kast, F., Meier, S., Pomeranz, D. Under-Savers
Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a
Savings Commitment Device Harvard
Business School Working Paper No.12-060, 2012. Key reference: [3]
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Prina, S. Banking the Poor
via Savings Accounts: Evidence from a Field Experiment Case Western
Reserve University Working Paper, 2013. Key reference: [4]
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Karlan, D., McConnell, M., Mullainathan, S., Zinman, J. Getting to the Top
of the Mind: How Reminders Increase Savings NBER Working
Paper No.16205, 2010. Key reference: [5]
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Aggarwal, S., Klapper, L. Designing
Government Policies to Expand Financial Inclusion: Evidence from
around the World University of
Virginia Working Paper, 2012. Key reference: [6]
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Aker, J. C., Boumnijel, R., McClelland, A., Tierney, N. Zap it to Me: The
Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program Center for
Global Development Working Paper No.268, 2011. Key reference: [7]
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Karlan, D., Zinman, J. Price and Control
Elasticities of Demand for Savings Working
Paper, 2014-01. Key reference: [8]
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Cole, S., Sampson, T., Zia, B. "Prices or
knowledge? What drives demand for financial services in emerging
markets?" Journal of
Finance 66:6 (2011): 1933–1967. Key reference: [9]
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Carpena, F., Cole, S., Shapiro, J., Zia, B. Unpacking the
Causal Chain of Financial Literacy World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper No.5798, 2011. Key reference: [10]
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Brune, L., Gine, X., Goldberg, J., Yang, D. Commitments to
Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper No.5748, 2011.
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Additional References
- Ashraf, N., Karlan, D., Yin, W. "Tying Odysseus to the mast: Evidence from a commitment savings product in the Philippines" Quarterly Journal of Economics 121:2 (2006): 673–697.
- Bryan, G., Karlan, D., Nelson, S. "Commitment devices" Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 671–698.
- Dupas, P., Green, S., Keats, A., Robinson, J. Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya’s Western Province NBER Working Paper No.17851, 2012.
- Dupas, P., Robinson, J. "Why don’t the poor save more? Evidence from health savings experiments" American Economic Review 103:4 (2013): 1138–1171.
- Jack, W., Suri, T. Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA NBER Working Paper No.16721, 2011.
- Kast, F., Pomeranz, D. Do Savings Constraints Lead to Indebtedness? Harvard Business School Working Paper No.14-001, 2013.
- Pickens, M., Porteous, D., Rotman, S. Banking the Poor via G2P Payments CGAP and DFID Focus Note No.58, 2009.