This Note highlights the practical challenges in the use of poverty measurement tools, as well as the benefits of their use for MFIs.

This Note highlights the relationship between responsible finance, social performance management and client protection and discusses the opportunities and challenges for MFIs.

This Note details the ways low income families in India deal with their medical exigencies in the absence of quality public heath care facilities – through a variety of savings, loans and distress sales

This Note compares the three most commonly practiced instalment collection methods in group lending and concludes that MFIs will have to devise ways to ensure continuity in their interface with clients.

This Note analyses the way poor entrepreneurs in Mumbai currently finance their businesses, and the options and opportunities for MFIs in Mumbai.

The note outlines some of the challenges which the MFIs will have to undergo in case of consolidation.

This Focus Note attempts to provide insights into the different sources of capital available to nascent MFIs in India and how an MFI might improve its ability to attract such capital