Savings, credit and investment oriented self-help groups have widely been billed to be the panacea to financial insecurity and indebtedness especially among the lower and mid-level earners.
They are touted as the cure to poverty by enhancing savings and investments. Yet, many that are formed get wound up without achieving their goals.
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