Data from Bank Negara Malaysia, the country’s central bank, illustrate a downward trend in household savings from 2018 through the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest data available indicate that “two thirds of self-employed respondents have savings equivalent to one month’s expenses, while 83 percent
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MICROFINANCE PUBLICATION ROUND-UP: Household Responses to Village Bank Access in Laos; Mobile Banking in Kenya; The Role of Banks in Driving Financial Inclusion
“Household Responses to Access to Finance Through GIZ-AFP Village Banks;” published by the Laos-Australia Development Learning Facility; February 2016; 50 pages; available at: http://ladlf.org/images/publications/030516_LADLF_GIZ_HH_Response_to_A2F_Final.pdf