Pauli, Markus ORCID: 0000-0003-0799-280X (2019) Market for 33 percent interest loans. Financial inclusion and microfinance in India. India Review, 18 (1). pp. 88-111. ISSN 1473-6489
Abstract
Financial inclusion is the process of building viable institutions that provide financial services to those hitherto excluded. These may include savings, insurances, remittances, and credit. Microfinance became the most dominant method for achieving financial inclusion. However, different microfinance schools of thought recommend opposite ways for attaining financial integration. India is a particularly insightful case study due to the sheer number of people excluded from formal financial services, as well as the spectrum of actors and approaches. The aim of this article is threefold. First, defining financial inclusion, depicting its status quo in India and comparing it to its South Asian and BRICS peers using recently released data from the Global Findex database. Second, focusing on microfinance as the dominant vehicle for achieving financial inclusion by scrutinizing its definitions, contrasting its two leading "schools of thought" and analyzing the central role of its dominant group-based approach. Third, the article will examine why people opt to take micro-credit at 33 percent interest rates.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | microfinance; microcredit; financial inclusion; India; loans; credit; borrowing; moneylenders; South Asia; BRICS; interest rates; comparison; politics; policy; gender; Findex database; Grameen; Annual Percentage Rate of Charge (APR); Andhra Pradesh; crisis; institution building |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Political science |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/147364... |
Copyright Information: | Taylor & Francis |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 24328 |
Deposited On: | 09 Apr 2020 11:35 by Markus Pauli . Last Modified 09 Apr 2020 11:35 |
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