Shweta S. Banerjee

Based in India, Shweta Banerjee is a social anthropologist working on digital finance, digital cash transfers, rural livelihoods and safety nets.

Previously, Shweta served as CGAP's India representative in Delhi, leading the knowledge agenda on goverment to person payments and managing key engagements with government and private sector. She has also worked as CGAP's blog editor for two years.

Shweta has worked at the World Bank on community-driven, rural livelihoods projects where she undertook qualitative research, knowledge management, and project development in South Asia. And as a policy analyst at the New America Foundation, advocating innovative savings products and services.

From India, Shweta read Social Anthropology at the University of Chicago and at Cambridge University, UK. You can find her on Twitter @banerjeeshweta.

By Shweta S. Banerjee

Blog

Can a Digitized Post Realize India’s Financial Inclusion Dreams?

With a giant effort currently underway to digitize India’s Post, this blog analyzes the prospects of India’s postal network to address the country’s financial inclusion challenges.
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Electronic Delivery of Cash Transfers in India: The Agent Story

The G2P ecosystem in Andhra Pradesh offers an opportunity to advance financial inclusion, and also offers many lessons as direct benefit transfers are rolled out across India.
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Credit Market Saturation: Anatomy of a Recent Debate

Two recent posts on repayment of microfinance loans in Tamil Nadu has sparked a debate between the authors. Both of whom raise a question for the industry as a whole: how can we better measure over-indebtedness and market saturation?
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Will This Bank Run Away? Women And Mobile Banking In Bihar, India

A recently released women and mobile banking report by GSMA and Visa Inc resonates with the conversations the author has with women in rural Bihar, in some of the poorest parts of India.
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We Have Moved...

Yesterday, we announced the launch of the new CGAP.org site and with it the migration to our new blog. This new consolidated platform will make it easier for our readers to find out what’s happening in the world of financial inclusion taking advantage of an improved integration with our social media channels, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Curious about responsible finance or how to drive customer adoption of branchless banking? You can now find everything you need to know about financial inclusion in one place.