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Rural finance in contemporary times: interface with microfinance
(2005-10-28)
In India, when we talk about rural finance, the stereotype offered is that of a banking system that
fails to reach out to the poorer clients and, when it does, fails to recover the money so disbursed.
The counter-point ...
Microfinance and the state: exploring areas and structures for collaboration
(2005-10-28)
Since the early 1990s, there have been many significant state initiatives in the institutional
and policy spheres to facilitate access to financial services by more poverty-stricken
groups. This article reviews the ...
Conditions in which microfinance has emerged in certain regions
(2007-11-09)
The paper looks at some macro data on the availability
of infrastructure, economic growth, density of
population and the availability of formal financial
services to examine if any of these factors explain its
growth ...