Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in India

Rajesh Chakrabarti () and Kaushiki Sanyal
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Kaushiki Sanyal: Sunay Policy Advisory Pvt. Ltd.

Chapter 7 in Financial Inclusion in Asia, 2016, pp 209-256 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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).

Keywords: Interest Rate; Financial Service; Commercial Bank; Private Equity; Financial Inclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58337-6_7

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