How to Increase Formal Savings for the Papad-Makers of Dharavi Slum
We feature a post by Mudita Tiwari and Deepti Kc, featured on the Financial Access Initiative blog. In Dharavi, Mumbai, the largest urba...
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Access is Not Enough
There has been a lot in the news lately about financial inclusion and extending banking services to the poor. With the expansion of the A...
Rockstar of Financial Inclusion: Business Correspondent Model of India
About Author : Jatinder Handoo is a social business enthusiast and a branchless banking practitioner. Currently works at FINO PayTech...
Why Government’s Rush to Use Aadhar-linked Benefit Transfers Could Derail the World’s Largest Unique ID Project
A few days ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that from January 1 st , the government would start using Aadhaar linked bank accou...
Analyzing the BC Model (Part II) Why isn’t it working? - Dormancy of No-Frills Accounts
[Terminology Used: Agents or Customer Service Points (CSPs) - Individuals, shops or other outlet points responsible for direct contact w...
Analyzing the Business Correspondent Model (Part I) - Why BCs?
Today, we begin a series on the Business Correspondent (BC) model based on findings from CMFs on-going studies and external research on th...
Agricultural Financing - Potential for Innovations ?
Quite often, I come across this from some of my city-based friends, "Someday I would like to retire and get settled in a village and ...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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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