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Our Interest in Interest Rates

Interest rates may be important, but that doesn’t make them easy to measure. Interest rates have long been a concern for policymakers...

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Sa-Dhan FI Conference 2014 - Inclusive Credit Information Bureaus (CIBs)

Session Panelists Mr Anil Jaggia, CIO, HDFC Bank Mr Sanjay Patel, CEO, Equifax Mr Sridhar, Sales Director, Experian Mr Sharad ...

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Understanding Agricultural Credit and Financing

Its been a while since I have written a post here and last time I wrote - it was on the savings theme - a whole month of reading, talking...

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Treated Bednets - Dealing with mosquitoes; Where is the problem?

Well, this week has been festive not just as per the Indian calendar alone, the weather in Madras has been rather pleasant with consistent...

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Business Correspondent might help but do they know about it?

Access to financial service is important can be verified by this simple story of Santosh. When he migrated to Delhi, he had no bank accoun...

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CMF Policy Brief: Can Formal Banking raise the incomes of the poor?

A recent policy brief published by the Centre for Micro Finance reports the impact of access to formal banking services on the inco...

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Rise of the Tier-II Banks?

While looking at the usual news updates at the CMF E-Library , I happened to come across an article originally posted at the Economic Time...

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Eye in the Sky - Role of Government - Intervene, Interrupt or Supervise?

A day ago, I came across this headline, "Bangladesh government prepares to take control of Grameen Bank" from David Roodman'...

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Is microfinance responsible for everything?

" Profiteers have hijacked the microfinance ".. that is what a new book written by Hugh Sinclair alleges. I am not denying th...

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Who will pay for Financial Literacy?

Author: Mudita Tiwari As we meander through the thatched mud-stained and brick houses in Uttar Pradesh, our team asks a curious group ...

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