Tag Search: “banking”
From tapering to tightening: The impact of the Fed's exit on India
India was among the hardest hit by the Fed’s ‘taper talks’. This column argues that this impact was large for two reasons. First, India received huge capital flows before. This had made it a convenie...
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Kaushik Basu
Barry Eichengreen
Poonam Gupta
27 November, 2014
- Articles
Challenges and priorities for financial sector reform in India
I4I Editor Nirvikar Singh (Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz) interviews K.P. Krishnan (Former Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance) on the central ...
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K.P. Krishnan
Nirvikar Singh
17 November, 2014
- Perspectives
How well does DBT work on the ground?
PM Modi has emphasised fast-tracking roll-out of the Adhaar-based Direct Benefits Transfer programme. In this note, Sweta Trayambak – who has worked with the district administration of Ramgarh in Jha...
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Sweta Trayambak
04 August, 2014
- Notes from the Field
A unique, informal banking system of rickshaw drivers in cities
Seasonal, rural migrants that drive rickshaws in cities have little or no access to formal financial institutions. Based on a survey of over 100 rickshaw drivers in Delhi, this article highlights a un...
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Garima Agarwal
Shashank Bhatt
Skand Goel
Arushi Kaushik
04 June, 2014
- Notes from the Field
Migrating out of poverty: The role of finance
Financial liberalisation has been controversial as it is not clear whom the expanded credit allocation actually benefits. Using variation across time and states in India, this column finds strong evid...
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Meghana Ayyagiri
Thorsten Beck
Mohammad Hoseini
13 September, 2013
- Articles
Does caste influence access to agricultural loans in rural India?
Increasing access to agricultural credit in rural India is a major policy priority. This column examines whether farmers’ access to formal agricultural loans depends on their caste. It is found that w...
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Sunil Mitra Kumar
03 June, 2013
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Foreign investors under stress: Evidence at the firm level
Emerging market policymakers have been concerned about the financial stability implications of financial globalisation. These concerns are focussed particularly on behaviour under stressed conditions.
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Ila Patnaik
Ajay Shah
Nirvikar Singh
01 March, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Helping the poor to save
Do poor people save? This column portrays the saving and financial behaviours and preferences of the poor. It recommends designing and marketing savings products that address the constraints they curr...
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Parul Agarwal
Deepti KC
Mudita Tiwari
23 January, 2013
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How Important are credit constraints for small firm growth?
This project focusses on the role of financial constraints in determining the lack of transition of firms from the very small family firms (OAMEs) which are the predominant type of firms in the inform...
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Kunal Sen
01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Role of Derivatives in India's Financial Development
The annals of financial history are littered with stories of corporations and financial institutions which collapsed when a deterioration in market conditions led to massive losses in the derivatives ...
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Rangarajan K. Sundaram
01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Household Finance in India
How does mortgage regulation influence the structure and performance of housing finance? This project answers the question by analysing administrative data on over 1.2 million loans originated by an I...
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John Campbell
Tarun Ramadorai
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Trade and the financial crisis: a focus on developing countries
Motivated by the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the trade collapse, this project analyses the effect of past banking crises (1976-2002) on trade with a focus on African exporters.
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Nicolas Berman
Philippe Martin
Thierry Mayer
Jose de Sousa
01 December, 2011
- IGC Research on India