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 …

for decades, the goal of universal financial inclusion is yet to be achieved in India. The Indian financial inclusion …

Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance … operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet another opportunity for microfinance institutions to …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …

change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …