Description: On most continents - from the USA to Africa and Asia - various forms of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) serve men and women of the community, often as their major -- and sometimes their only -- savings institution.
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Mrs. Shirley Ardener is at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford.
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