Just Released: Frequently Asked Questions about Youth Savings Accounts

Increasingly, development practitioners and scholars are looking to youth savings accounts (YSAs) as a potential tool to spur  development and financial inclusion among low-income youth in developing countries. This has led many others to ask: What are youth savings accounts? Who offers them? What are their features and objectives, and how to do they vary? 

This FAQ is meant to provide a basic overview of a relatively new area of inquiry and practice by answering these and other questions surrounding the emerging field of youth savings.

Click here see the YouthSave Consortium’s FAQ on YSAs.