Justin Oliver

How Do Migrant Workers Move Money in India?

To better understand just how costly making remote payments can be for poor households, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned the Centre for Micro Finance at the Institute for Financial and Management Research (IFMR) and the Reserve Bank of India’s College for Agricultural Banking to survey 274 domestic Indian migrants and their families living at opposite ends of four domestic remittance corridors.

Who’s the Culprit? Accessing Finance in Andhra Pradesh

The crackdown by the Andhra Pradesh state government on microfinance institutions was based on a number of assumptions about what’s happening with microfinance here in India.