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for decades, the goal of universal financial inclusion is yet to be achieved in India. The Indian financial inclusion …
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agricultural activities. Access to savings groups also leads to a four-percentage point increase in access to credit among women … microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …
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Uruguay implemented an ambitious financial inclusion program that included a fiscal stimulus through VAT rebates and subsidies for point of sale (POS) adoption. One of its main provisions banned cash payment of wages and social benefits and forced financial institutions to open wage-accounts...
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Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically … examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …
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This working paper examines the current academic literature on access to finance for female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises. It covers two main financing markets: credit and venture capital (VC). The paper finds wide consensus in the academic field that gender-related credit and VC gaps...
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combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …
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