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N P Mohapatra

How Many More Poverty Lines?

Vol. 51, Issue No. 38, 17 Sep, 2016

Letters

N P Mohapatra

This is with reference to the article “India’s ‘Poverty of Numbers’: Revisiting Measurement Issues,” by Gaurav Nayyar and Rohini Nayyar (EPW, 27 August 2016). The authors have presented four sets of estimates, and have concluded that there is clearly a need to correlate calorie-based poverty ratio...

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This Is Financial Inclusion

Vol. 51, Issue No. 35, 27 Aug, 2016

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N P Mohapatra

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Financial Inclusion

Vol. 49, Issue No. 33, 16 Aug, 2014

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N P Mohapatra

This has reference to the article entitled “Bank Preference for Financial Inclusion in Rural Punjab” (EPW, 26 July 2014) by S S Sangwan. Based on the findings of the study, the author has concluded that commercial banks may be the preferred option for financial inclusion over small banks. He has...

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NABARD and Microfinance

Vol. 43, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2008

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N P Mohapatra

This has reference to the article of P Satish ‘Misplaced Critique of Microﬁnance Regulation Bill’ (January 19, 2008). I invite your kind attention to the preamble of NABARD Act 1981 which reads: “An act to establish a development bank to be known as NABARD for providing and regulating credit and...