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We voice our thoughts and provide updates through our fortnightly column in The Hindu Business Line, “Finance Matters”. We have consolidated these articles in our blog, making it easier to browse through the entire collection.

Livemint

Big concerns over small loans
Microfinance, an effective tool for financial inclusion, remains an embattled sector today. Nachiket Mor and Bindu Ananth discuss various elements of the sector in this article.

Basic economic freedom: Why can’t we get it done?
Access to finance, which is a necessary precondition for the poor to build their stable lives on, provides them basic economic freedom – something that can be easily done under existing conditions. But that there are millions outside the formal financial system is appalling; argue Nachiket Mor and Bindu Ananth in this article.

Don’t reject structured finance
In this Live Mint article, Sona Varma and Suyash Rai argue that global crisis should not used as an excuse to reject financial products that can spur growth such as the originate to distribute model, a widely practiced variation of the traditional financial intermediation.

Wall Street Journal

Finance as Noise-Canceling Headphones
In this article, Bindu Ananth and Nachiket More explain the true role of finance in an individual’s life. Other than moving resources across time and various states of the world, they write that it should be able to “slide into the crevices and craters that inevitably occur in every life”.

Debunking myths about the poor and financial services
In this article, Sona Varma and Suyash Rai bring out the deeply transformative power of finance for the poor.

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