Increasing urbanization and massive demographic pressures that India is witnessing has brought housing and infrastructure to centre stage.
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Dvara Research’s Household Finance Research initiative aims to rigorously understand the financial choices and decisions of low-income or excluded individuals and households, and their relation to achieving households’ objectives. It has been our consistent endeavour to study financial inclusion as a gateway to a suite of appropriate financial services eventually enabling well-rounded household balance sheets and consumer financial well-being.
Head - Household Finance
Senior Research Associate
Increasing urbanization and massive demographic pressures that India is witnessing has brought housing and infrastructure to centre stage.
IFMR Trust is a private trust whose mission is to ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services.
Rural households need relatively large sums of money for life cycle needs (such as marriages, festivals and old age), emergencies (such as illness, the death of a bread-winner and floods) and investment opportunities (as much in assets and household goods, for example, as in investments in micro-businesses)i .
In this paper, we present two stylized models of the financial system. We make the case that in order to realize the potential of a well-functioning complete financial market, financial system designers and financial service providers will need to think about ways to deliver financial propositions that are customized to individual households by responding to their unique circumstances.
Finance Matters column in The Hindu Business Line – Farzana Najeeb of Advocacy writes the fifth article in the series.
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In all our research efforts, we strive to maintain an independent voice that speaks for the low-income household and household enterprises. Our ability to perform this function is significantly enhanced by our commitment to disseminate as a pure public good, all the intellectual capital that we create.
