Tag: Akhilesh Singh

Food security: How are agriculture and the corner shops faring amid India’s lockdown?

What is the impact of COVID-19 on agriculture and microenterprises? As transport and flow of cash and goods remain restricted, how will farmers and owners of small shops cope with the crisis? These are some questions we explore in detail as we devise suggestions for policymakers and players in the ecosystem.

Apr 15, 2020

Akhilesh Singh and Manoj Sharma

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Small Finance Bank Licences: Not the End of the Road for Non-SFB MFIs

MFIs that are not small finance banks can also find ways to increase their market share.This note discusses all these aspects in detail.

Nov 27, 2015

Akhilesh Singh, Lokesh Singh and Nikunj Gor

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Transformation of Microfinance Institutions to Small Finance Banks: Differentiating Men from the Boys!

This note is second in the series and examines how small finance banks can build a first-class retail institution that focusses on low-income clients.

Sep 17, 2015

Akhilesh Singh, Lokesh Singh, Abhishek Anand, Nishant Kumar and Nitin Malik

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Transformation of Microfinance Institutions into Small Finance Banks: Will it be a Roller Coaster?

In this note, we discuss various challenges that MFIs may face while transforming into small finance banks. The second note in this series would examine plausible solutions.

Sep 15, 2015

Akhilesh Singh, Lokesh Singh and Nishant Kumar

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Can You Really Use Mobile Money for Microfinance? Lessons from a Pilot

In this Note we examine the evolution and mechanics of MNO-MFI partnership and how this partnerships could be made mutually more rewarding in the context of mobile money deployments.

Feb 3, 2015

Akhilesh Singh, Lokesh Singh and Nishant Kumar

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Alternative financial education approach to design effective financial education/capability programmes

MicroSave implemented an Alternative Financial Education programme (AFE) at one of the biggest MFIs in north India. The tool based was based on the principle of product-led financial education, the programme delivery was embedded in the existing operational structure of the MFI, and the tools were designed using SWITCH behavior change framework.

Jan 16, 2015

Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh, Nishant Kumar and Nitish Narain

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