Tag: Ann-Byrd Platt

This Policy Brief discusses how poor people manage their money better and are willing to pay for more convenient banking services in India.

This Policy Brief discusses that Financial inclusion cannot happen without agents and it will happen with better and more lasting results if all levels in this effort.

MicroSave conducted a study in three different Indian states – Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu this past year to seeks answers to the following questions: How do poor people save and what works best for them among the formal, semi-formal, and informal choices available? Why do they choose one investment or savings versus another, […]

This note discussed that mobile wallets are no different from any other aspect of financial inclusion. The dominant player is still usually the bank.

In this note, for the past five-six years, most efforts to move money via mobile phones or point-of-sale (POS) terminals have required full bank participation, or at least bank partnership.

This note examines the process of reinventing, how these people send and receive money in remote locations, how they pay bills and loans.