1st Edition

Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development The Role of Postal Financial Services

By Mark J. Scher, Naoyuki Yoshino Copyright 2004
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    Postal savings systems in Asian developing countries play a significant role in social and economic development. In many of these countries, and others around the world, postal savings and giro remittances are the only means of providing financial services to all segments of the population, particularly women, rural communities, and the urban poor. Postal savings in many countries also hold the largest share of individual and household savings among competing institutions. This book examines the postal financial systems of some twenty countries visited by the author, and also includes case studies by expert authors from different developing nations. Among the topics covered are savings product development, investing mobilized funds, receiving overseas remittances, and utilizing financial technology.

    This controversial study analyses the present and future prospects for organized labour in the private sector. The book takes the decline and ultimate disappearance of labour unions - not just in the United States but elsewhere in the developed world - as fact.

    Biography

    Mark J. Scher, Naoyuki Yoshino