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Resource Center: Publications

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"Increasing Life Chances for Orphaned Children in Africa: Testing an Asset-based Development Strategy"
"Financial Capability and Poverty" Discussion Paper
"School Attendance of Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Assets"
"New Directions for Social Policy: Social Investment Strategy and Child Development Accounts in Korea"
"Can California Import a British Plan?" - An Op-Ed on Children and Savings
"International NGOs and Poverty Reduction Strategies"
"Cutting-Edge Development Issues for INGOs"
"Individual Accounts: Trends in Asset-based Retirement Policy"
"Asset building in low-income families: UK Child Trust Fund"
"Asset-based social programs: response"
"Microfinance & ICICI Bank" - India
"Savings, credit and insurance among the poor and very poor in developing countries"
"The Impact of Child Savings Accounts on Health and Educational Outcomes of Orphaned Children in Uganda"
"The Dark Side of Saving: Maintenance of Value in non-OECD Countries"
"Time to Mainstream Micro-Pensions in India"
"Savings and Asset Development for the Poor in Developing Countries"
"Using Microinsurance and Financial Education"
"Remittances, Microfinance and Technology in the Sri Lankan Context"
"The Social and Economic Rights of the Child" - Aflatoun, Child Savings International
"The Capacity of Poor Women to Grow Their Businesses in the Dominican Republic" -Women's World Banking