This page headlines three books authored by Stuart Rutherford, the SafeSave founder, and a selection of SafeSave reports that can be viewed and/or downloaded from the foot of this page.
For a listing of chapters in books and research reports by Rutherford and colleagues, please click here.
The following books are available at Amazon.comand other retailers
The Poor and Their Money isStuart Rutherford's essay on how poor people manage their money. For an outline of the chapter contents click here.
Portfolios of the Poor, co-authored by Rutherford, has been influential in changing international perspectives on microfinance. For more detail please click here.
Described by Kim Wilson of Tufts University as 'the best book on microfinance - ever', Rutherford's bookThe Pledge, about ASA, a major Bangladeshi microfinance organization, provides many insights into how microfinance evolved and how it really works.
The final report, written in 2006 by SafeSave, on the use of a small grant given by CGAP to improve internal control and to experiment with a rural branch
Report by a financial journalist who volunteered to take a long look at product P9 in Kalyanpur just before SafeSave decided to take it over: comments by Rutherford included
