Theme: Financial Capability

Millions of low-income people across the world use ROSCAs as instruments of savings and credit. Since these people are susceptible to income volatility, ROSCAs give them the unique option to pursue a savings goal, as well as an opportunity to build social capital and creditworthiness.

This blog examines the factors that influence people’s food choices and thus their nutritional intake. It also highlights the need for nutrition literacy among the PDS beneficiaries.

This blog presents the challenges faced by India to shift the focus of its public distribution system from food security to nutrition security.

This briefing note introduces MSC’s gender centrality framework and explains how financial service providers and policymakers can help to promote the gender equality.

This brief provides an overview of the capacity, operational and product-related lessons learnt by MicroSave in supporting financial service providers in Africa.

In this edition of MicroSave’s ‘Low Income Lives’ series, Stuart Rutherford uses data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries to study how poor people in Bangladesh buy food.