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Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in India

In: Financial Inclusion in Asia

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  • Rajesh Chakrabarti
  • Kaushiki Sanyal

    (Sunay Policy Advisory Pvt. Ltd.)

Abstract

Access to financial services such as credit, savings, insurance, and remittance facilities is a necessity for the poor at least as much as it is for the affluent and the middle class. Research has shown that even households with incomes of less than a dollar a day per person rarely consumed every penny as soon as it was earned. Instead, they sought to “manage” their money by saving when they could and borrowing when they needed to. Since financial institutions in the formal sector were reluctant to lend to people in the low-income group, the microcredit industry stepped into fill the gap (Collins et al. 2009; Morduch 1999).

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  • Rajesh Chakrabarti & Kaushiki Sanyal, 2016. "Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in India," Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance, in: Sasidaran Gopalan & Tomoo Kikuchi (ed.), Financial Inclusion in Asia, chapter 7, pages 209-256, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psifcp:978-1-137-58337-6_7
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58337-6_7
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    Cited by:

    1. Munacinga Simatele & Loyiso Maciko, 2022. "Financial Inclusion in Rural South Africa: A Qualitative Approach," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-22, August.

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