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Rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations: A development perspective

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  1. Nkonya, Ephraim & Phillip, Dayo & Mogues, Tewodaj & Pender, John & Kato, Edward, 2012. "Impacts of Community-driven Development Programs on Income and Asset Acquisition in Africa: The Case of Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(9), pages 1824-1838.
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  5. Rabie, Dina, 2021. "RoSCAs in Egypt: A Banking Institution or a Commitment Device?," ILE Working Paper Series 52, University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics.
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  7. Vincent Guermond, 2022. "Contesting the financialisation of remittances: Repertoires of reluctance, refusal and dissent in Ghana and Senegal," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 54(4), pages 800-821, June.
  8. Leif Atle Beisland & Roy Mersland, 2012. "The use of microfinance services among economically active disabled people: Evidence from Uganda," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24, pages 69-83, January.
  9. Mersland, Roy & Strøm, Reidar Øystein, 2009. "Performance and governance in microfinance institutions," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 662-669.
  10. Avner Greif, 1997. "On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe," Working Papers 97016, Stanford University, Department of Economics.
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  15. Karna Basu, 2011. "Hyperbolic Discounting and the Sustainability of Rotational Savings Arrangements," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 3(4), pages 143-171, November.
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  19. AMANKWAH, ERNEST & Gockel, Fritz Augustine & Osei-Assibey, Eric, 2019. "Pareto Superior dimension of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in Ghana: Evidence from Asunafo North Municipality of Ghana," MPRA Paper 96308, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  20. Mersland, Roy, 2005. "The agenda and relevance of recent research in Microfinance," MPRA Paper 2433, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  21. Ernest AMANKWAH & Fritz Augustine GOCKEL & Eric OSEI-ASSIBEY & Alice NUBUOR, 2019. "Pareto superior dimension of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in Ghana: Evidence from Asunafo North Municipality of Ghana," Journal of Economics Library, EconSciences Journals, vol. 6(4), pages 287-309, December.
  22. Gonzales Martinez, Rolando & D’Espallier, Bert & Mersland, Roy, 2021. "Bifurcations in business profitability: An agent-based simulation of homophily in self-financing groups," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 129, pages 495-514.
  23. Julie-Marthe Lehmann & Peer Smets, 2020. "An innovative resilience approach: Financial self-help groups in contemporary financial landscapes in the Netherlands," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(5), pages 898-915, August.
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  25. Anirban Pal & Piyush Kumar Singh, 2021. "Do socially motivated self‐help groups perform better? Exploring determinants of micro‐credit groups’ performance in Eastern India," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(1), pages 119-146, March.
  26. Mahabi Nabami, Armande & Petre, Anaëlle & Mersland, Roy, 2024. "Impact of climate change training intervention in savings groups," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 36(4), pages 2047-2062.
  27. Akim Tafadzwa Lukwa & Feyisayo Odunitan-Wayas & Estelle Victoria Lambert & Olufunke A. Alaba & on behalf of the “Savings for Health” IDRC Collaborators, 2022. "Can Informal Savings Groups Promote Food Security and Social, Economic and Health Transformations, Especially among Women in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: A Narrative Systematic Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-26, March.
  28. Morvant-Roux, Solène & Guérin, Isabelle & Roesch, Marc & Moisseron, Jean-Yves, 2014. "Adding Value to Randomization with Qualitative Analysis: The Case of Microcredit in Rural Morocco," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 302-312.
  29. Ghafran, Chaudhry & Yasmin, Sofia, 2024. "Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
  30. Kyle McNabb & Philippe LeMay-Boucher & Jacopo Bonan, 2019. "Enforcement Problems in ROSCAs: Evidence from Benin," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 31(5), pages 1389-1415, December.
  31. Fenella Carpena & Shawn Cole & Jeremy Shapiro & Bilal Zia, 2013. "Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 27(3), pages 437-469.
  32. Mersland, Roy & Strøm, Reidar Øystein, 2007. "Performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions," MPRA Paper 3887, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  33. Mersland, Roy, 2005. "Microcredit for self-employed disabled persons in developing countries," MPRA Paper 2068, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  34. Marc Labie & Roy Mersland, 2011. "Corporate Governance Challenges in Microfinance," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Beatriz Armendáriz & Marc Labie (ed.), The Handbook Of Microfinance, chapter 13, pages 283-298, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
  35. Kumar, Neha & Raghunathan, Kalyani & Arrieta, Alejandra & Jilani, Amir & Chakrabarti, Suman & Menon, Purnima & Quisumbing, Agnes R., 2019. "Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women’s self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 28-41.
  36. Hadrien Saiag, 2013. "Financial Practices as Adaptations to Increasing Vulnerability," Post-Print halshs-02343508, HAL.
  37. Avner Greif, 2006. "History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 20(2), pages 221-236, Spring.
  38. Shochrul Rohmatul Ajija & Asif Iqbal Siddiqui, 2020. "Impact of Joining Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA) on Household Assets in Indonesia," Economic Growth Centre Working Paper Series 2001, Nanyang Technological University, School of Social Sciences, Economic Growth Centre.
  39. Murizah Osman Salleh & Aziz Jaafar & M. Shahid Ebrahim, 2012. "Can an interest-free credit facility be more efficient than a usurious payday loan?," Working Papers 12008, Bangor Business School, Prifysgol Bangor University (Cymru / Wales).
  40. Aili Mari Tripp, 2001. "Non-formal Institutions, Informal Economies, and the Politics of Inclusion," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2001-108, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  41. Beisland, Leif Atle & Mersland, Roy & Randøy, Trond, 2014. "The Association between microfinance rating scores and corporate governance: a global survey," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 35, pages 268-280.
  42. Lønborg, Jonas Helth & Rasmussen, Ole Dahl, 2014. "Can Microfinance Reach the Poorest: Evidence from a Community-Managed Microfinance Intervention," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 460-472.
  43. Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto & Carlos Serrano-Cinca & Juan Camón-Cala, 2016. "A Credit Score System for Socially Responsible Lending," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 133(4), pages 691-701, February.
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  45. Emma Bossuyt & Bert D’espallier & Roy Mersland, 2023. "Profit-Generating Entities or Cash-Management Vehicles? Unpacking the Financial Performance of Savings Groups Worldwide," Post-Print hal-05221042, HAL.
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