Shweta S. Banerjee

Based in India, Shweta Banerjee is a social anthropologist working on digital finance, digital cash transfers, rural livelihoods and safety nets.

Previously, Shweta served as CGAP's India representative in Delhi, leading the knowledge agenda on goverment to person payments and managing key engagements with government and private sector. She has also worked as CGAP's blog editor for two years.

Shweta has worked at the World Bank on community-driven, rural livelihoods projects where she undertook qualitative research, knowledge management, and project development in South Asia. And as a policy analyst at the New America Foundation, advocating innovative savings products and services.

From India, Shweta read Social Anthropology at the University of Chicago and at Cambridge University, UK. You can find her on Twitter @banerjeeshweta.

By Shweta S. Banerjee

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Building India’s Model of Agent Banking

CGAP, in collaboration with the College of Agricultural Banking, just completed a national survey, which captured the big picture on agents across the country. In India, the term customer service point (CSP) is used to refer to individuals who act as agents on behalf of banks.
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India’s Microfinance Industry: An Anatomy of Risk for April 2012

With around 20 million borrower accounts estimated for March 2012, India still has one of the largest microfinance industries in the world. However, in March 2012 it also had the dubious distinction of having perhaps the worst portfolio quality in the world (at the national level).
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Best of the Microfinance Blog 2010

It’s inevitable that a review of the year would highlight the dramatic turn of events in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, as well as other fundamental issues about the provision of financial services for the poor that emerged in such stark light in 2010.
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From SKS to Andhra Pradesh in India

From the rich conversation that was generated, here are the main issues that emerged and some of the many highlights from authors as well as readers.
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Financial Access 2010 Launch

Financial Access 2010 is based on data from financial regulators in 142 countries and provides the first ever framework for global comparisons on financial inclusion.