Community Savings Circles and Remittances: Building on the Trillion Dollar Informal Economic System

by Economic and Political Development Concentration

Academic Asia EPD Financial Inclusion Innovation for Development

Wed, Oct 18, 2023

1 PM – 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Add to Calendar

IAB, Room 801

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States

View Map
59
Registered

Registration

Details

The "informal economic sector” swirls around us. We outsiders can’t see it, yet a villager or immigrant could tell us how it works. Ask the townsfolk and villagers who run the most transparent and community-minded savings groups how they would organize more groups. Grassroots Finance Action (https://lnkd.in/et6Yu8w) did just this and was astounded by the results. Please join Jeffrey Ashe, Director of Grassroots Finance Action and SIPA Adjunct Associate Professor, for a discussion of how these community savings groups are revolutionizing access to very much needed resources among the most disadvantaged.

Where

IAB, Room 801

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, United States

Hosted By

Economic and Political Development Concentration | Website | View More Events
Co-hosted with: MPA in Development Practice

Contact the organizers