Contractual Children Savings Accounts in Low Resource Communities: Who Saves?

This study examines variation in saving behavior of poor families enrolled in a children savings accounts program for orphaned and vulnerable school-going children in Uganda. We employ multilevel analyses using longitudinal data from a cluster-randomized experimental design. Our analyses locate the following significant results: (1) financial institutions' characteristics affect average monthly savings and deposit frequency; (2) reported high levels of family cohesion are associated with higher deposit frequency; (3) children in the care of female guardians report higher average monthly saving and deposit frequency. The study has the following key implications: institutions and family relations matter in children savings mobilization

The content and features of transport servicing of region economy

Development of a transport complex of the region and transport servicing becomes more and more urgent every year and exerts the increasing impact on development of the region in general. In article basic provisions of transport servicing of economy of the region are determined. On the basis of a research of approaches to determination of transport servicing the author's understanding of this process is provided. The system of transport servicing of the region is considered as set of elements of transport infrastructure through which interaction the needs for cargo transfer and passengers in the region are satisfied. It is the open system having the isolated internal environment and interacting with the external environment. At the same time the internal environment consists of elements between which communication is much stronger, than with the elements constituting the external environment. In market conditions the urgent problem of uncertainty of the external environment influences in turn a condition and development of system of transport servicing of the region, changing external and internal conditions of its functioning. The characteristic of system of transport servicing of the region is provided. Methods of regulation of transport servicing are determined. Features of transport servicing of economy of the region are marked out: need of updating of a property, plant and equipment on transport and development of transport infrastructure; insufficient development of strategic planning of transport as single complex within transport system and in a general context of development of productive forces; the low investment and innovative activity in a motor transportation industry caused by reducing internal and foreign investments, decrease in financing from the government budget. The research of a condition of standard legal support of development of a transport complex in the Voronezh region is conducted, the analysis of the strategic and forecast documents regulating transport servicing in the region is given. The perspective directions of development of a transport complex of the region are determined: steady and effective functioning and development of transport as component of a production infrastructure of Russia is a necessary condition of stabilization and structural adjustment of economy. Regional economies create features of a national transport complex, the level of its development and the priority purposes

Factors and Norms Influencing Unpaid Care Work: Household survey evidence from five rural communities in Colombia, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

In order to address ‘heavy’ and ‘unequal’ care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutting development issue, Oxfam and its partners implemented a baseline Household Care Survey (HCS) in five countries in which the WE-Care project was active. In November/December 2015, a revised version of the HCS was carried out in these same communities. As a follow-up survey, the 2015 HCS monitored change and impact from the project's interventions and gathered evidence on ‘what works’ to address care work in specific contexts. The aim is to generate evidence that helps local organizations address problematic aspects of care work, contributing to women’s ability to participate, lead and benefit from development initiatives. This evidence is then used to develop project interventions that recognize, reduce and redistribute existing unpaid care work within the household, the immediate community (civil society), the market (private sector) and the state authority (central and local governments). ISBN: 978-0-85598-834-

Social capital, savings, and educational performance of orphaned adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa

10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.07.013Children and Youth Services Review32121704-1710CYSR