A decade ago, I piloted a debt and savings programme to help families restructure their finances in a bid to help them break out of the poverty cycle.
The “how” was sufficiently simple – a matching fund to incentivise regular repayments – but what surprised me was how small differences in implementing the scheme could reap vastly different outcomes.
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