June 27, 2023
Why India’s microfinance sector needs to prioritise innovation
Despite being as big as the credit industry, factors such as technological constraints and regulatory barriers from RBI continue to hold the microfinance sector back.
Giorgia Barboni is an assistant professor of finance at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She is also engaged in research at CAGE and J-PAL. Her research interests are in development economics, financial intermediation, household finance, and green finance. She has previously been a postdoctoral research scholar at the Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Research in Financial and Development Economics