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SEED: A Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Published in December 2004 by researchers at Harvard and Princeton, this paper assesses the outcomes of an "action research" project in the Philippines, which studied how the design of a savings product influences both the type of client attracted to the product and the impact the product has on financial savings.