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Tag: Stuart Rutherford
When You Can’t Save Up – Saving Down and Saving Through
This Note discusses how low-income households move financial value through time using loans and chit funds in order to access large sums of money
Dec 5, 2011
Delinquency Management Lessons from Bangladesh
In this video Stuart Rutherford – Founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh talks about the competition in Bangladesh, delinquency management and the key challenges in addressing it. Attributing the emergence of various MFIs as one of the reasons for defaults, Stuart discusses the clients’ behaviour towards payment patterns.
Oct 18, 2010
Listening to Clients: A Market led Approach
In this video Stuart Rutherford – Founder of SafeSave, a microfinance institution in Bangladesh and author of the books ‘The Poor and Their Money’ and ‘Portfolios of The Poor’ tells that listening to clients is at the heart of providing financial services in a market-led approach.
Oct 11, 2010
Portfolios of the Poor: Grameen-2 – A Success Story
In this video series-4 answering Graham A.N. Wright of MicroSave, Stuart Rutherford, talks about SafeSave, Buro and particularly Grameen 2 in Bangladesh who have developed financial products that addresses the three main problems the poor face to manage money: managing money on daily basis, money for handling emergency and building large sums of money for […]
Jun 2, 2010
Portfolios of the Poor: Financial Products
In this video series-3, Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” talks about the financial products that poor people need from MFIs. He also describes the behaviour of people in managing daily expenses when income is irregular and their vulnerability to emergencies.
Jun 1, 2010
Portfolios of the Poor: Key Lessons
In this video series-2, taking the conversation further with Graham A.N. Wright, Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor”, shares the key lessons of the book in terms of poor people’s financial behaviour. Informing that poor people lead complex financial lives basically not only due to meager but irregular income. Sharing his research work […]
May 28, 2010