Tales of Bharat - D91 Labs
What an honour for financial inclusion. Abhijeet Banerjee, Esther Dufalo and Micheal Kremer win Nobel prize for economics for their work global poverty. There couldn’t be a more exciting time to work in the field of financial inclusion :)
Their books ’Poor Economics’ and ’Good Economics for Hard Times’ is highly recommended. That said here is the update on our research work.
“ Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are informal associations of people who choose to come together to find ways to improve their living conditions. It can be defined as self governed, peer controlled information group of people with similar socio-economic background and having a desire to collectively perform common purpose.” Source
Self Help Groups - SHG
Understanding how Self Help Groups work to create trust is a critical part in bringing larger masses into formal financial system and there by enabling financial inclusion. Here is a two part series on Karnataka SHG called ‘Stree Shakti Sangha’. This series gives a sneak peek into how these groups function.
Stree Shakti is a women empowerment program launched by the Government of Karnataka in 2000–01 to strengthen their access to financial services and make them self reliant. The program draws its…
Kirana Chronicles
Kirana Chronicles is our research series on documenting the financial journeys small businesses in India.
‘Do you know where Times Square is?’, I asked a stranger on the road, ‘Straight, dead-end left, tall building at the junction’ he said; the standard way of giving directions in Bengaluru. A row of…
The store had a glass display of several hundred micro chips arranged in a peculiar fashion. A young lady at the billing counter greeted me and asked me the purpose of my visit. As she asked me to…
From around the web:
As we write our research series, we are inspired by the community who publish some incredible work in the field of designing for next billion users. We are curating some of the links that we enjoyed reading for you :)
People of Bharat: Girish Roy - BharatInclusion
It’s nearly dusk as I enter the small shop with a sign ‘Roy Copier’. The shop is about 6 by 4 feet on a narrow street in Kolkata. It’s dim, with dark blue walls — paint peeling off in too many…
Episode 2: Financial Inclusion Must Work For The Urban Poor, Too
Author: Jency Samuel Dodging two-wheelers and bicycles in the heart of Chennai city, 47-year-old Kannika Arumugam scurries across a road carrying a large pot. She pumps potable water from a hand pump on the other side of the street, provided by the government. This is to supplement the hard water from the bore well in…
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