Poor people are the most vulnerable to shocks arising from sickness, accidents, death or loss of assets due to natural calamities and riots, etc. With barely any risk-management tools such as savings or insurance; they are compelled to borrow from …

In the recent times, there is a growing importance for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). FDI is playing a vital role in filling investment gaps in various key sectors of the developing countries. Policy makers of many emerging countries have recognized …

Though the Indian economy is basically an agrarian economy, yet, the management of food grains remains a big issue. Where on the one hand, supply of food grains is decreasing due to some obvious reasons; storage of hitherto produced food …

Microfinance, today, has become a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation, and enables the poor to accumulate assets, boosts their incomes, and reduces their economic vulnerability, but still, it is a much confused buzzword in the banking sector. Microfinance is still …