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Resource Type: India focus notes

Moumita Sen Sarma

Microfinance Is Not An Easy Business!

This focus note journeys through the emergence, history and present status of microfinance in India....
Jul 10, 2007

Graham Wright and Manoj Sharma

Electronic Banking: The Next Revolution in Financial Access

This note concludes with highlighting opportunities for financial institutions and telecommunications companies, regulators’ willingness and...
Jul 1, 2007

Y S P Thorat and Graham Wright

The Credit-Deposit Ratio – Time for a Re-Think?

This note provides a critique of CDR as a yardstick of measuring bank commitments for...
Apr 30, 2007

Y S P Thorat and Graham Wright

Microfinance – Meeting The Challenges to Realise the Potential

This note discusses about recent trends in the microfinance sector in India, which places a...
Apr 16, 2007

Graham Wright, Manoj Sharma and Madhurantika Moulick

The MicroSave-India Market-led Financial Services Programme

This note introduces the MicroSave-India programme. It provides an overview of governance, programme focus and...
Mar 5, 2007
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