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Tag: Akhilesh Singh

Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh and Graham Wright

How Can BC-MFIs Tap Household Savings?

MFIs do not fit into clients’ mental models of where to save. This note studies,...
Oct 22, 2014

Akhand Tiwari, Nitish Narain and Akhilesh Singh

The Essential Ingredients of an Effective Financial Education Programme

In this Briefing Note we discuss areas that we think were critical to the design...
Sep 3, 2014
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Akhilesh Singh

Is There a Magic Stick to Manage Delinquencies? 

Delinquency is a systemic issue in microfinance institutions, once it is detected a through system...
Jul 28, 2014

Akhilesh Singh and Akhand Tiwari

Research with a roll of the dice

Gamification plays a crucial role in research, prominently for financial services research where respondents are...
Jul 14, 2013

Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh, Krishna Thacker and Nitish Narain

Breaking Free from the Myths of Financial Education

This Note examines myths around the design of financial education programmes, and discusses the KSAP...
May 30, 2013

Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh, Mukul Singh and Nitish Narain

Role of information sources in financial capability

The key to understanding poor people’s financial management is to understand how they make decisions...
May 24, 2013
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