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Stuart Rutherford

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

July 07, 1943

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An independent researcher and consultant in financial services for the poor, especially in south and south-east Asia, Stuart Rutherford has lived in Bangladesh since late 1984. He concentrates on imagining and field-testing innovative financial services schemes for the very poor in the countryside and in the towns. He also writes, helps local NGOs to develop financial services schemes, and provides consultancy services to a wide range of clients.

As a practitioner: Stuart Rutherford is the founder and Chairman of SafeSave, a financial services Co-operative which pioneers ultra-flexible savings and loans services for urban and rural poor in Bangladesh. He helped a Co-operative Bank replicate an earlier version of the SafeSave model and that An independent researcher and consultant in financial services for the poor, especially in south and south-east Asia, Stuart Rutherford has lived in Bangladesh since late 1984. He concentrates on imagining and field-testing innovative financial services schemes for the very poor in the countryside and in the towns. He also writes, helps local NGOs to develop financial services schemes, and provides consultancy services to a wide range of clients.

As a practitioner: Stuart Rutherford is the founder and Chairman of SafeSave, a financial services Co-operative which pioneers ultra-flexible savings and loans services for urban and rural poor in Bangladesh. He helped a Co-operative Bank replicate an earlier version of the SafeSave model and that scheme now has over 30,000 accounts. He is also a Board Member of ASA, a Bangladeshi NGO which is the world’s fastest growing and most cost-effective microfinance institution for the poor. He runs Binimoy, a not-for-profit venture which promotes innovation in financial services for the poor and develops products.

As a writer: In late 1995 Stuart Rutherford published the first full-length book which examines NGO involvement in micro-finance in Bangladesh from an historical and critical perspective. He has also published two medium-length works on user-owned financial services, (commissioned and published by DFID [official British aid] and ActionAid) and has contributed articles to academic journals. He is a Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, UK.

As a consultant: Stuart Rutherford has carried out field-work commissions, including research studies, product design, and programme evaluations, for many clients including DFID, ADB, EU and many NGOs including Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, ASA, Proshika, and ActionAid. He first came to Bangladesh as Country Director (1984-1990) of ActionAid's development programme in Bangladesh, where he devised and executed a system of offering savings and credit facilities to over 20,000 landless families in a remote southern District of the country, and set up the first-ever urban replication of the Grameen system. The programme was supported by funds from several major donors. He is also working as Advisor to ActionAid's Vietnam programme, where he has developed a savings and loan bank for poor communities of indigenous people in the northern mountain areas.

Stuart Rutherford has a first class degree from Cambridge University (1966), and is also a qualified architect. He speaks good Bengali, and is in good health. ...more

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	The Poor and Their Money: Microfinance from a Twenty-First Century Consumer's Perspective by Stuart Rutherford (Editor), Sukhwinder Singh Arora 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pledge: ASA, Peasant Politics, and Microfinance in the Development of Bangladesh 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meaningful Engineering Science: Is Your Theory Really Practical? did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch , Stuart Rutherford 3.94 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Hills Meet the Sky: Guide to Wartime Aircrashes in the Cheviot Hills by Peter F. Clark, Stuart Rutherford (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Sugarcane Volume 2: Breeding, Pests and Diseases by Philippe Rott (Editor), Jianping Wang (Contributor) , Frederick Botha (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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