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Beyond Financial Inclusion: The Future of Microfinance in India

March 4, 2024 arflabweb Leave a comment

Background Indian government’s recent financial budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 had numerous implications for various sectors, including microfinance. Microfinance…

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Filed under: Credit Guarantee Scheme, Digital Payment Systems, Financial Inclusion, Microfinance, Small Businesses

The Risk of Mission Drift in MFIs and How to Manage It

November 22, 2022 arflabweb

Introduction: What is Mission Drift in MFIs? Microfinance institutions (MFIs) typically provide small loans to low-income individuals and families who…

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Filed under: Financial Efficiency, Microfinance, Mission Drift, Social Efficiency

News and Research Updates

  • • ARF Lab congratulates Mr. Saugat Das on the acceptance of his paper at the “6th World Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming,” to be held on 21-23 November 2025 at Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • • ARF Lab extends heartfelt congratulations to Dr. S. Bhunia and Prof. P. K. Singh for their outstanding achievement of publishing their latest article, Producer organizations in the last 25 years: a bibliometric analysis and meta-review of the literature, in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
  • • ARF Lab is delighted to announce that IIT Kharagpur, in collaboration with IIM Nagpur, will be hosting an International Seminar on Digital Transformation for Growth: Empowering Agro-Rural Economies Towards Sustainable Viksit Bharat 2047.
  • • Snapshots of one-day training and capacity-building workshop focused on the “Management and Governance of Farmer Producer Organizations” funded by DST, GoI, held at CRDIST, IIT Kharagpur on December 11, 2024
  • • Job Opportunities: ARF Lab is recruiting a Research Associate—Subject Matter Expert. Interested candidates can apply. For more details: https://arflab.co.in/contact-us/

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