Fred Ssewamala
CSD Faculty Director; Washington University in St. Louis
Global Asset Building: Innovations in Policies and Services
- Email: fms1@nospam.wustl.edu
Fred Ssewamala is a CSD faculty director in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His CSD research focuses on global asset building, particularly in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
CSD Projects
American Dream Policy Demonstration (ADD)
Asset Building
This is the first large-scale demonstration of Individual Development Accounts, with approximately 2,400 accounts opened at 13 sites across the country.
YouthSave
Global Asset Building
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.
Global Assets Project
Global Asset Building
Our collaboration with the New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program seeks to inform and promote development of asset-building policies and programs worldwide.
SEED-Uganda
Global Asset Building
We worked with local researchers to implement and test an asset-building intervention with orphaned children at seven primary schools in the Rakai district.