The paper focuses on women's financial behaviour in their use of higher order financial services in Ghana and South Africa, inviting a gendered and social analysis of deconstructing financial behaviour. Women in South Africa are more likely to use general financial products than in Ghana, though...

This paper examines the impact of information networks, namely media and social networks on the financial decisions of female-headed households in India. The study analyses the relationship between information channels and household decisions using Bourdieu's relational approach. We find that...

This paper is motivated by the observation that the type and the combination of assets are associated with the likelihood of poor households' experience of shock. Focusing on the case of <italic>adivasi</italic> households in the south Indian state of Kerala, we find that the type, number and combinations of...</italic>