Tag: Risk management
It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Losses Suffered by People Saving in Uganda
The paper provides details of the richness and complexity of poor people’s attempts at saving in the informal sector and their successes, failures and losses as they do so.
May 1, 2002
The Relative Risks to the Savings of Poor People
The study is based on qualitative and quantitative research to assess risks involved in saving informally as compared to saving through institutions in semi-formal and the formal sector in Uganda.
Feb 2, 2002
Necessity as the Mother of Invention How Poor People Protect Themselves Against Risk
This examine the various systems and mechanisms that poor people use to protect themselves against risks.
Nov 14, 1999
Savings and Needs in East Africa: An Infinite Variety
This paper focuses on risk management strategies of poor people to cope with the crisis situation as it disrupts the income stream of the household to meet their basic needs.
Jan 9, 1999