Resource Type: India Focus Notes

This focus note journeys through the emergence, history and present status of microfinance in India. It discusses the various stages of evolution while highlighting key challenges of each stage.

This note concludes with highlighting opportunities for financial institutions and telecommunications companies, regulators’ willingness and understanding the present market demands for enhancing financial inclusion.

This note provides a critique of CDR as a yardstick of measuring bank commitments for serving the poor, instead it suggests to develop an alternative measure that calculates credit as per utilisation

This note discusses about recent trends in the microfinance sector in India, which places a focus on efficiency, sustainability and need based product diversification.

This note introduces the MicroSave-India programme. It provides an overview of governance, programme focus and about administration and budget of the MicroSave’s intervention in India.