Financial Inclusion Expert
Trained originally as an architect, Stuart Rutherford later became interested in how poor people manage their money, and how they might be helped to do it better
Innovative Approaches to Delivering Microfinance Services: The Case of VSSU, West Bengal
This report reviews the work of VSSU, a MFI in West Bengal and attempts to assess the opportunities and constraints of VSSU’s services and to their replication elsewhere
Jul 1, 2002
Stuart Rutherford, S K Sinha, Md Maniruzzaman, Mark Staehle, Sirajul Islam, Anowar Hossain and Hossin Ripon
Jul 1, 2002
Stuart Rutherford, S K Sinha, Md Maniruzzaman, Mark Staehle, Sirajul Islam, Anowar Hossain and Hossin Ripon
Use and Impact of Savings Services among the Poor in Tanzania
The report focuses on savings practices of poor people in Tanzania. It examines the perceived advantages and disadvantages of these particular savings services including the socio-economic characteristics of the people.
Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda
This report shares findings that improve knowledge and understanding of how poor people in Uganda save with the informal mechanisms like banks, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, money guards, deposit collectors, ROSCAs, ASCAs
Jan 8, 1998
David Hulme, Graham Wright, Henry Sempangi, Leonard Mutesasira and Stuart Rutherford
Jan 8, 1998
David Hulme, Graham Wright, Henry Sempangi, Leonard Mutesasira and Stuart Rutherford