Indian Microfinance: The Challenges of Rapid Growth - Softcover

Ghate, Prabhu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761936432 ISBN 13: 9780761936435

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive account of various components of the Indian microfinance sector, the largest in the world. After reviewing the main challenges facing the sector, it analyzes the progress of the two main delivery models, issues relating to the emerging microfinance services of micro-insurance and money transfers, ongoing efforts in training and capacity building, opportunities facing commercial financers such as bankers and social venture capitalists, the remaining need for development financing, and ongoing research in the sector.

About this title

About the Author:

Prabhu Ghate is an independent researcher, journalist and consultant, based in New Delhi, with a Ph.D. in public policy from Princeton University. While on study leave from the IAS, he conducted extensive field work on anti-poverty programmes in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and authored Direct Attacks on Rural Poverty: Policy, Programmes, and Implementation (1984). Thereafter, as a Senior Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, he anchored a six-country comparative study, Informal Finance: Some Findings from Asia (1992). He has worked in many countries of Asia in the areas of rural and financial development, has a number of journal articles to his credit, and writes frequently for Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0761936432
• ISBN 13: 9780761936435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228