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Chhatisgarh, Not Vidarbha

Posted by: Aadisht on: April 22, 2009

Girish Shahane has a post up about how the Huffington Post is panicking over a mass suicide of 1500 farmers in Chhatisgarh: So, the Belfast Telegraph, which presumably has no correspondents in India, picks up a news item from who knows where, and tacks on a misleading headline. The phrase ‘mass suicide’ gives the impression [...]

Tags: agriculture, change management, chhatisgarh, cleanup project, farmer suicide, financial inclusion, gearing, interest coverage, labour movement, land title, leverage, mad irishmen, microfinance, naxalism, right to property, sale of agricultural land, usury, while farmers are dying in vidarbha

The Genie is Out of the Bottle

Posted by: Aadisht on: September 20, 2008

In: Finance
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The front pages are still preoccupied with the carnage in the investment banking world, but yesterday the RBI quietly announced something which is going to be huge three years down the line: the draft guidelines for mobile banking. There’s an Indian Express article on it here, and the original guidelines are available here (plain HTML) [...]

Tags: Bank account, consumer banking, financial inclusion, mobile banking, rbi, retail banking, transaction banking

More on Finance and Inclusive Growth

Posted by: Aadisht on: June 17, 2008

In: Business | Finance | Links
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Suddenly, the idea that financial sophistication leads to inclusive growth seems to have caught on (well, except with the Ministry of Finance, which is actually in a position to do something about it). First there was my Pragati piece. Yesterday, Nivirkar Singh’s column in Mint also touched on this: Petia Topalova of the International Monetary [...]

In Pragati

Posted by: Aadisht on: June 4, 2008

In: Finance | Infrastructure | Personal
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I have an article on how finance is actually infrastructure and financial sector reforms out in this month’s edition of Pragati. The link to the article gives you an excerpt and you’ll have to download the PDF version (slightly less than 2 MB) to read the full thing. The article had a checkered history. I had almost [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘financial inclusion’

Chhatisgarh, Not Vidarbha

The Genie is Out of the Bottle

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