Friday, November 16, 2012

A model banker for rural India

....the kind of proximity and access to the banking system that Sharma provides is almost non-existent in most of rural India; only 39% of the rural population has a bank account, and 73% does not have access to the formal credit system. It is a problem the government has made intermittent efforts to address. In August, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked banks to make financial inclusion —delivering financial services to the poor and the unbanked—more meaningful and urged them to examine the quality of their local managers known as ‘business correspondents.’.......

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