Microcredit in India, a response to the climate challenge?

Dialogues économiques
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In India, microcredit helps to cushion climatic shocks, finds economist Timothée Demont in his research on community-based economic Self-Help Groups in the eastern state of Jharkhand. His analysis focuses on the effects of these groups on the economic resilience of villages when droughts affect harvests.
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