Tag: Financial Lives of Poor Households

Ideas on how to benefit from the account opening momentum and make progress on usage as well.

Part 2 of a two-part series on the learnings and takeaways from a Household Finance course.

Part 1 of a two-part series on the learnings and takeaways from a Household Finance course.

A few insights from the field on possible reasons for low account usage.

Insights from the India sample of the Global Findex 2017.

Natural disasters leave behind them a tale of death and destruction that affects the economy on the whole and severely impacts communities, especially low-income households, which bear its brunt.

In this post we assess the state of bank credit depth for the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and the variation in credit depth across the 75 districts of UP during the 2004-12 period.

Due to the demonetisation of currency and recall of the currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 denominations announced by the government there was some panic in the initial days and the mandis were closed for some days.

Why is malnutrition in India’s central belt, which includes the state of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, so high and so persistent despite relatively high rates of income growth?

Natural catastrophes, whether in the form of the severe drought that regions like Bundelkhand are currently witnessing or floods, like the one which deluged Chennai in 2015, leave behind them a tale of destruction that is both unparalleled and deeply disturbing