Global Asset Building

Our pilot program tests asset-building innovations for impoverished households and communities in Uganda. 

We assist China with creating its first asset-building program and conduct ongoing research with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

This collaborative research project with the Seoul Welfare Foundation focuses on a matched savings program modeled on Individual Development Accounts.

Our collaboration with the New America Foundation's Asset Building Program seeks to inform and promote development of asset-building policies and programs worldwide. 

We provided policy and research design support to the government of Hong Kong as it developed a proposal for a national Child Development Fund. 

Our pilot programs focused on the rural poor with the goal of encouraging low-income families to save for assets for a better life.

We held a research and policy symposium on knowledge foundations and policy strategies to enable low-wealth individuals to build assets.

With the Indonesian Ministry of Social Welfare and State Islamic University, we designed an asset-based pilot to be implemented in poor areas of Indonesia.

We work with the Israeli government to develop an asset-building policy of national Child Development Accounts. 

Our project enables families to save and make investments in the Nairobi Stock Exchange in Kenya. 

We focused on credit scoring for microfinance and poverty scoring to improve access for the poor to formal financial services. 

We provide policy and research design support to nongovernmental organizations in Peru and Colombia as they develop three asset-based poverty alleviation initiatives. 

We worked with local researchers to implement and test an asset-building intervention with orphaned children at seven primary schools in the Rakai district. 

The policy set up an account for every Singaporean ages 7 to 20. It is one of three asset-building programs that create a cradle-to-grave asset-building system for all.  

We provide policy and research design support to the government of South Korea as it develops and implements programs that focus on social investment. 

Our project assisted the Taipei City government with policy and research design for its Taipei Family Development Account pilot program.

This initiative in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal was to understand conditions for delivery of savings products and services to improve the lives of low-income youth.