Helping Microfinance Fulfill its Promise: Raising Borrower Incomes through Agent-Intermediated Lending

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra (), Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta () and Sujata Visaria ()
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Sandip Mitra: Sampling and Ocial Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
Alberto Motta: School of Economics, University of New South Wales
Sujata Visaria: Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Sujata Visaria and Sujata Visaria

No 2015-03, HKUST IEMS Thought Leadership Brief Series from HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Abstract: IEMS Faculty Associate Prof. Sujata Visaria and colleagues explore how microfinance programmes can be fine-tuned to more effectively address the microcredit promise of financial inclusion and helping the poor.

Keywords: micro finance; microcredit; microfinance; agent-intermediated lending; financial inclusion; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2014-10, Revised 2014-10
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