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BANKING/FINANCE: Chit funds help low, middle income households: Study.

Business Line

| October 31, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

from BUSINESS LINE, October 31, 2009 Chennai, Oct. 30 - Chit funds have proved to be useful tools for enabling savings and credit disbursement in the low income groups and deserve to be encouraged for financial inclusion. This is the thrust of a study that was funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and conducted by the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR).

(Chit funds are rotating savings and credit associations, where members of a group (scheme) pool in money each month and the pooled funds are loaned to the member who offers the best interest rate.) The study, which took two and a half years to complete, focussed on the chit fund operations in five …

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