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Resource Type: Research papers

Abhishek Gupta, Akhand Tiwari, Bhavana Srivastava and Sunita Rangaswami

Redeeming the pledge on gender equality

Across the globe, a billion women remain financially excluded, with a gender gap of 9%...
Oct 29, 2018

Stuart Rutherford

How the poor borrow

This is the third in a series of short articles about the findings of a...
Sep 29, 2018

MSC

The daily costs of debt: Problematising repayment

Microfinance represents a hallmark of modern development initiatives. Widespread claims from the sector assert that it offers a sustainable solution...
Sep 29, 2018

Aishwarya Singh, Mitul Thapliyal, Neha Parakh, Nishant Saindane and Vijay Ravi

DBT in education: A study of delivery of in-kind benefits...

The objectives of the study were to understand the processes for the distribution of benefits;...
Sep 25, 2018

MSC

Managing loan repayments

The use of credit is an essential part of how low-income households manage to smooth...
Sep 20, 2018

MSC

Riding (the) rocket to digitised microfinance

Each month,  SAJIDA foundation, an NGO in Bangladesh receives loan repayments from almost 10,000 clients across five of their...
Sep 6, 2018
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