Questions for Week 5

1) If men typically control business and do not allow women to handle money to begin with, is it practical to have just a micro-savings initiative in the name of a woman, without pairing it with a micro-loan initiative? They need to come into contact with money before they can start to save it, right?
2) In what ways are matched-savings programs attractive to the sources of  funding? Do you agree that only the government can fund the programs effectively or can the funding come from somewhere else?
3) Because women typically save for the benefit of the whole household, should most development initiatives be established through the woman? In its own way, is that furthering a gender bias?