Tag: Financial Lives of Poor Households

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What does the asset allocation look like for people living in remote rural India (villages with less than 5000 population)?

In India, rice and wheat comprise 70 percent of agricultural produce by area, but less than 25 percent by value.

There has been much discussion recently about the distorting nature of various indirect subsidies such as those being offered via price controls on fuel and fertiliser.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/govt-needs-to-revisit-priority-sector-lending-policy-for-more-effective-financial-inclusion/articleshow/17685747.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

There has been a lot of stress on assessing a customer’s cash-flows before sanctioning a specific loan, for instance a home loan or a crop loan.

This is the first post in the Unemployment Support in India series. In this series, we will explore the unemployment support mechanisms in India today;

A recent report titled “Latest findings from Randomized Evaluations of microfinance” by Jonathan Bauchet, Cristoball Marshall, Laura Starita, Jeanette Thomas and Anna Yalouris, throws a lot of interesting insights into the realm of randomized evaluations and how they are being increasingly used by researchers across the globe to better understand financial services for the poor and the impacts achieved when an appropriate financial intervention is introduced.

The Centre for Micro Finance, IFMR Research, published its latest report “Five Years of Researching Financial Services for the Poor” at its recently concluded annual conference held in association with RBI’s College of Agricultural Banking.

Governments have proven to be too inefficient, the non-profits too small and the corporates too greedy to provide basic services. What about for-profit social enterprises?

In February 2010, I had the opportunity to visit Pudhuaaru KGFS in Thanjavur. This is a remarkable project which helps us see the interface between households and the financial system in a wholly new light.