11,Jan,2021

Clubbed in groups, lending models for women-run businesses have a peculiar problem

Women make up an overwhelming majority of the microfinance borrowers in the country – 85% share – as per a report by SIDBI and PwC India in November 2019, but there is an anomaly.Most of the microfinance players disburse loans either through the Joint Liability Group (JLG) or the Self-Help Group (SHG) model. Individual micro enterprise loans for women entrepreneurs still don’t come by that easy, given a lack of access to traditional collateral

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