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In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development Subclass_ASIAN HISTORY / POLITICS The very best journalism fromTwo and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can't reach them; savings groups can. In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings groups form and function and how little outside support