Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank is India’s first bank run for and managed by low-income rural women. MOIN QAZI highlights a unique...

The idea of universal basic income has been a focus of serious discussion in recent years. India is the latest...

In 1969, India nationalised 14 banks to help cement state control over the financial system. Five decades later, it has...

Self-help is the best help—that is the rationale sustaining women-led self-help groups and other village organisations. They are now one...

MOIN QAZI argues that micro-insurance is a highly effective social protection tool to end the cycle of poverty. It can...

A recent PIL filed in the Supreme Court seeks the deletion of certain verses of the Qur’an on the ground that they...

Self-help groups are India’s most powerful conduits for incubating and empowering women to move from subsistence to sustainability. The pandemic...

Savings have been the most trusted and oldest building block of financial management. In earlier societies, the habit to save was...

Panchayati Raj, or local self-governance, was a dream Mahatma Gandhi cherished. He considered it the ideal model to develop India’s...

India has made rapid strides in assuring financial access to a large section of the population. Yet the hard truth...

More than 70% of the world's population lives without any formal acknowledgment of ownership of their land. Little else is...

Even as our civilisation scales new peaks, we are slowly losing our freedom. Without it, all other values wither and...