The Ladder

Microcredit may have won a Nobel Prize, but evidence is mounting that savings-based programs are more effective tools for providing a pathway out of poverty.

In this week's New America/Politico Live Chat, Jamie M. Zimmerman, New America's deputy director of the Global Assets Project, will be taking questions at Noon ET Tuesday on the role of savings in international development, from the United States to Mexico to Uganda. For background on this issue and some promising pilot programs, please see the video from last week's event, "Savings as a Tool for International Development."

UPDATE: This online discussion has concluded. A complete transcript is available below..

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Past Chats

Previous New America/Politico chats have their full transcripts archived:

• Schwartz Fellow Dayo Olopade on the Obama Administration's faith-based initiatives
• Education Policy Program staffers Lisa Guernsey and Christina Satkowski on the future of Head Start
• Health Policy Program Director Len Nichols on the current state of health reform
• Energy Policy Initiative Director Lisa Margonelli on the prospects for real progress with climate policy legislation.
• Schwartz Fellow Nicholas Thompson on Cold War lessons for Afghanistan