-The Hindu Business Line Why access to capital for MSME entrepreneurs has the potential to alter India’s social fabric India’s social fabric has undergone a series of transformations since Independence. After the liberalisation of the economy in the 1990s, the market opened up and employment opportunities grew, as did the spending power and standard of living of the average Indian. As financial access grew, so did social mobility. However, certain sections have lagged...
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The low productivity trap of collateralised lending for MSMEs -Harsh Vardhan
-Ideas for India The share of bank credit extended to MSMEs increased dramatically during the pandemic. In this post, Harsh Vardhan discusses the the government guarantee of bank loans as a possible driver of this growth. He outlines the current policy of providing credit against collateral, and the constraints MSMEs face while borrowing– which leads to decreased investment and firm productivity. He argues that the learnings from the credit guarantee scheme...
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Are public sector banks (PSBs) important for the economy? Have the PSBs served the purpose for which they were created? Could the PSBs compete efficiently against the private sector banks (PVBs)? These are some of the questions, which have been answered by a chapter in the RBI Bulletin's August edition. Efficiency of PSBs Co-authored by Snehal S Herwadkar, Sonali Goel, and Rishuka Bansal (2022) of the Banking Research Division, Reserve Bank of...
More »Over a fourth of MSMEs lost more than 3% market share last fiscal: Crisil -Subhash Narayan
-Livemint.com While the industry Ebitda margin is expected to touch pre-pandemic level this fiscal, MSMEs in more than half the sectors will buck the trend. The performance is also underwhelming in the context of corporate India, which is expected to log a 10-14% increase in revenue and Ebitda margin of 19-20% NEW DELHI: More than a quarter of India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) lost over 3% market share due to...
More »Loans worth ₹37 trillion sanctioned to MSMEs in FY22, up 182% from FY20: Report
-Livemint.com From ₹37.7 lakh in FY20 to ₹72.4 lakh in FY21-22, the average ticket size of MSME loans increased by 92%, the data on MSME loans showed. Total loan sanctioned to MSMEs stood at ₹37.29 trillion in FY22, an increase of roughly 5% over FY21 and 182% over FY20, as per a report by CRIF High Mark, a credit bureau. From ₹37.7 lakh in FY20 to ₹72.4 lakh in FY21-22, the average ticket...
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