Escaping the Poverty Trap: Formal Savings and Asset Accumulation in Rural Malawi

Formal savings accounts can be an effective device for households to accumulate assets over time and thus have more funds available to better afford an expensive one-time payment, in the form of either addressing an economic shock or paying for an important life event. I explore this relationship us...

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Main Author: Breitwieser, Audrey
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1436
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2359&context=cmc_theses