Our opinion editorials are published in newspapers, magazines, and new-age online publications. They are an important tool for public discourse and advocacy. They help us to raise awareness about important issues, and they often provide a platform for perspectives from our researchers, to be presented and to be heard.
The recent controversy surrounding the microfinance sector has entirely eclipsed the fact that it is the first effort in India to have delivered financial services to remote corners of the country in a self-sustaining manner.
India has a concentrated banking system, which means that if five individuals decide that this needs to be done, it will be done.
The power of finance to transform the lives of the poor is not well understood.
Finance is a tool that, when it works well, is designed to help an individual or a firm move resources smoothly across time and across different states of their lives (such as good health and ill health).
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.
