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- Technical Session II: Social Capital, Microfinance and Empowerment – CAB 2010 (Excerpts)
- CAB Conference 2012
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- Microcredit and money management: evidence from the AP crisis (On – going)
- About CMF
- Introduction
- People at CMF
- Voices from the Field
- Playing Games in the Rain: Dhruv talks about an impact evaluation on rainfall insurance
- Financial Inclusion: Hari and Saravana talk about financing projects in rural Tamil Nadu
- Learn to Save: Monisha discusses the effect of monitors on six-month savings goals in rural Karnataka
- Back to the Future: Samik tells us how pricing information helps farmers make better decisions
- Crisis and Catharsis: Sneha follows-up on the effect microcredit has on urban poverty in relation to the AP crisis
- Rainfall Insurance: Surabhi talks about a followup impact evaluation on index-based insurance
- The Psychology Behind Pensions: Tithee tells us what happens behind-the-scenes when we buy a pension
- Life Insurance in the Lab: Laura and Anushree tell us about their experience in CMF’s first lab experiment
- Too much texting: Tanaya talks about the benefits of delivering agricultural information through cellphones
- News
- Capacity Building
- Policy Outreach and Dissemintaion
- Achievements
- Principal Researchers
- Support Unit
- Partner Organizations
- Research Institutes
- Funding Partners
- Other Partners
- Research Projects
- Financial Inclusion
- The Role of Financial Access, Knowledge and Service Delivery in Savings Behaviour and Welfare in Bihar
- Evaluating FINO’s Financial Literacy Education Programme
- Map of Microfinance
- The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance
- Tamil Nadu Socioeconomic Mobility Survey
- Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from Experiments with Commercial Bank Loan Officer
- Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured – Tri-State Weather Insurance Project
- A Study on Cost and Revenue Pattern of Business Correspondents and Assessing Clients’ Willingness to Pay
- Financial Inclusion Studies: Analysis of No-Frills Accounts Drives in Cuddalore
- Financial Inclusion Studies: Analysis of No-Frills Accounts Drives in Gulbarga
- Targeting the Hard-Core Poor – An Impact Evaluation
- Understanding the Psychology of Mass Default: A Case Study of Eastern Maharashtra
- Access to Finance in Andhra Pradesh
- Impact evaluation of Spandana’s micro-credit program (Completed)
- Putting Money in Motion: How much do migrants pay for domestic transfers?
- Flexible repayment schedules for dairy clients in KAS Foundation (Completed)
- Experiments on repayment schedules in VWS, West Bengal (Completed)
- The Economics and Psychology of Long-term Savings and Pensions (On-going)
- Credit for women: Evidence from a citywide microfinance expansion (Completed)
- The importance of social networks in determining the uptake of microfinance (On-going)
- The Impact of Access to Finance in Rural Tamil Nadu: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
- Peer and selection effects among neighbors in urban public housing in India (Completed)
- Selling formal insurance to the informally insured (New)
- Index Insurance to manage weather risk – A Long term experiment in Gujarat
- Survey of Access to Finance in Andhra Pradesh (Completed)
- 100% Financial Inclusion: Access and Usage (Completed)
- Livelihoods
- Can Workfare Serve as a Substitute for Weather Insurance? The Case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh
- How Do Caste, Gender and Party Affiliation of Locally Elected Leaders Affect Implementation of NREGA?
- Tamil Nadu Socioeconomic Mobility Survey
- What causes dispersion in revenue and output across firms? The brick industry in India
- Understanding the incentives of commission motivated agents in life insurance: Theory and Evidence from Indian Life Insurance
- Livelihoods Research: Translating Research into Policy and Practice
- Avaaj Otalo: Investigating the Impact of a Mobile-based Agricultural Extension Service
- The Impact of Financial Access and Social Networks on Agriculture
- Impact Evaluation of Hand-in-Hand Self-Help Group Programme
- Impacts of Livelihoods Projects. Stocktaking of Agriculture and Rural Development Projects (India) (Completed)
- Evaluating impact of providing information about futures prices
- Social Objectives
- Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India
- Impact Evaluation on Savings Training on Microcredit Groups in Rural India
- Inclusive Growth through Microfinance and Entrepreneurial Training: An Impact Study
- Tamil Nadu Socioeconomic Mobility Survey
- The Effect of Financial Literacy Training on Personal Financial Decision-Making
- Debt traps
- Microloans, Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Orissa
- Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
- Integrating the poorest into microfinance: An impact assessment (Completed)
- An impact evaluation of the provision of health insurance through microfinance networks in rural India (On-going)
- Policy and Regulation
- Financial Inclusion
- Publications
- Partners
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- Courses and Workshops
- Seminars
- Podcasts
- Bhaumik: Games that RAs Play
- Srikumar: Keeping track of our expenses
- Parul: Fieldwork for Dummies
- Justin Oliver: Pathways to a better microfinance
- Ajay Tannirkulam: Providing modern financial services for the poor
- Ajay Tannirkulam: Playing with dice
- Lakshmi Krishnan: How the Center for Microfinance came to be
- Akhand discusses issues related to Consumer Protection with CMF Senior Researcher Minakshi Ramji
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