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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.

Slide Deck

"Yes I Get It. Small Deposits Do Make Sense." - Lessons From a Pilot With Airtel Payments Bank on Client Communication

This slide deck charts the journey of a pilot on behavioral communication to encourage women to make small saving deposits.

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Market Opportunities for Women’s Savings: Evidence From India

This study analyzed data to better understand why and how women save in India to guide financial services providers as they work to better tailor their products to customer needs.

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Self-Help Group Members as Banking Agents for Deepening Financial Inclusion

This study shares insights from the rural financial institutions program and demonstrates how self help group members as banking agents or customer service points could deliver last mile banking services to the rural community in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.

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Breakthroughs in Women’s Empowerment: Decision-making Power of Women in Microfinance and Financial Self-help Groups in Jharkhand and West Bengal

Key findings from Health Diaries conducted with 45 women in two states in India
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Mapping Financial Access: Deposit-Taking in India

Shedding light on formal savings access
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How Can BC-MFIs Tap Household Savings?

Developing MFIs as savings service providers
Case Study

Channel Innovation for Financial Inclusion

How Cashpor transformed to an MFI-BC to provide multiple financial services to the poor
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From Social Banking to Financial Inclusion: Understanding the Potential for Financial Services Innovation in India

Innovations in savings for low-income households in India
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Weather Insured Savings Accounts

Assessing famers' response to a mixed financial product