The ‘Common Services Centre’ Model: A no-win scenario?
Study on incentive compatibility in welfare delivery
Reaching the Last-mile: Delivery of Social Protection in India
Our analysis of last-mile delivery challenges
Does Co-opting Private agents for welfare delivery work?
Public-Private Partnerships in Welfare Delivery in India: A Preliminary Review
Last-mile issues can make or break the promise of Aadhaar
These avoidable implementation challenges on account of Aadhaar can be significantly resolved by a clear legal articulation of permissible uses of Aadhaar through suitable amendments.
Financial Inclusion: Reaching the Last Mile in Financial Services Delivery
Despite the best efforts by policy makers and state-owned banks, the last mile problem has been an insurmountable hurdle in the way of financial inclusion for the poor. Bindu Ananth, Chair – IFMR Trust & IFMR Holdings, busts some common fallacies about financial inclusion.
Reaching the Last Mile in Financial Services Delivery
As part of Business Today Magazine’s 25th Anniversary issue, Bindu Ananth has written an article in the latest edition of the magazine.
Direct Benefits Transfer in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh, with an area of 3.08 lakh square kilometres is the second largest State in India after Rajasthan1. It has a total of 50 districts2, 52,117 inhabited villages3 governed by 23,006 panchayats, and as per the 2011 Census, has a population of 7.27 crore4 with more than 75% of it residing in villages.
Extending the third-party aggregator model from ATMs to Business Correspondents
When you have two systems running in parallel, the hardest part is always managing the interface between the two. Customers don’t usually all migrate to the new system entirely and at the same time, so there is a need for the new system to offer backward compatibility with the older, more established system.
Banks can do more on the Business Correspondent front
G E Balajee, IFMR Blog Team in conversation with Abhishek Sinha, CEO, Eko India Financial Services Private Limited on the Business Correspondent model, its challenges and prospect.
Taking banking to the last mile
Efforts to promote financial inclusion achieved momentum in the country with the RBI guidelines in January 2006, allowing appointment of non-bank Business Correspondents (BC) as agents for the delivery of financial services outside bank branches.