Key Takeaways on Innovations in Commitment Savings for the Poor from Aishwarya Ratan (Innovations for Poverty Action)

Aishwarya Ratan of Innovations for Poverty Action/Yale University shares her key takeaways from the After Hours Seminar #61, "Matching Products with Preferences: Innovations in Commitment Savings for the Poor." In this video, Ratan discusses the implications of findings from recent studies measuring the impact of commitment savings accounts on rural households in Malawi and Kenya.

Bio: Aishwarya Ratan

Aishwarya Ratan is the Director of the Microsavings and Payments Innovation Inititative at Yale University. Ratan has joined Yale and the team at Innovations for Poverty Action in New Haven in June 2011. In her years at the Microsoft Research Labs in Bangalore, Ratan gained extensive experience leading projects on the role of technology in enabling social and economic development and poverty alleviation. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Wellesley College and a Master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.