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Study to Assess the Role and Impact of Women Self-Help Groups as Banking Agents in Bihar
This slide deck provides the main findings from a CGAP research exploring the role of gender in developing rural agent networks in Bihar State, India, through the State Government's Bank Sakhi Program.
Voices of India’s MSMEs: Insights Notes From the Diaries Access to Finance
This note discusses examples from MSC's Financial Diaries research on informal enterprises and provides recommendations for policymakers and financial service providers to address the credit gap for them.
Fintech Lending Risk Barometer 2022-2023
This study is part of a market monitoring exercise to understand the range of risks and how they are perceived by multiple stakeholders in the Indian fintech lending sector.
G2P Next in India: Choice, Resilience and Inclusivity
This policy brief draws on global trends to understand how government-to-person programs can evolve to address India's challenges.
Impact of Climate Change on Smallholders and Their Coping Strategies
This research dives into strategies that can help build smallholder farmers' climate resilience.
Decoding Government Support to Women Entrepreneurs in India
This report maps government entrepreneurship support schemes across six key ecosystem needs and shares valuable insights on them.
Customer-Centric and Responsible Digital Credit Solutions for Urban and Rural Non-farm Entrepreneurs and Smallholder Farmers
This analysis of digital credit users in India, Indonesia, and Kenya assesses the impact of digital credit on their financial health.
DBT Diagnostic Study: Female Beneficiaries' Experience of Receiving DBT
This slide deck reveals evidence from India on female beneficiaries' experience of receiving government-to-person (direct benefit transfer) payment.
How Digital Payments Drive Financial Inclusion in India
This research looks at the journey of digital payments, major events and entities that contributed to it, and products that revolutionized the digital payments space.
Responsible Digitization of Small Entrepreneurs in Rural India
This report presents key insights and opportunities from Hindustan Unilever Limited’s business-to-business Shakti digitization program to implement the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments and build scale.