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Business News > Mint Authors > Sumita Kale

Sumita Kale

ARTICLES BY SUMITA KALE

For meaningful financial inclusion, we need clear metrics

4 min read . 30 Sep 2021

Steps to sustain the big success that our DBT Mission has been (Photo: Mint)

The untold success of India's direct benefit transfer scheme

4 min read . 03 Aug 2021

How India could speed up the financial inclusion of women

4 min read . 08 Mar 2021

(Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Opinion | A good nudge to relieve businesses of regulatory sludge

4 min read . 14 Jul 2019

Shankar Mourya/Hindustan Times

Opinion | Tackling regulatory cholesterol to reduce our farm dependence

4 min read . 04 Jun 2019

The new banks are expected to depend heavily on technology to reduce costs and increase ease of transactions. For instance, existing Airtel customers can have the same account number as their mobile number. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Payments banks in uncharted territory

4 min read . 29 Nov 2016

India is short of universal financial inclusion even by the simple metric of ownership of a basic bank account. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Better regulation for a less-cash economy

4 min read . 15 Nov 2016

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

No clear picture of access to banking in India

4 min read . 27 Oct 2016

Why cheap data won’t be enough

4 min read . 20 Sep 2016

RBI needs a new monitoring culture

4 min read . 08 Aug 2016

Payments banks came into being thanks to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) push to ensure that the banking sector deliver financial inclusion. Photo: Bloomberg

Don’t write off payments banks

3 min read . 01 Jun 2016

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’ launch in New Delhi. Photo: PIB

Enabling direct transfers through JAM

4 min read . 11 Feb 2016

Photo: Sneha Srivastava/Mint

The payments banks revolution

4 min read . 24 Aug 2015

The last mile in direct benefits transfer

4 min read . 31 May 2015

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

Innovation in payment banking

4 min read . 19 Apr 2014

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

A shaky vision for financial inclusion

4 min read . 16 Jan 2014

India has chosen a bank-led model, primarily due to concerns of risk mitigation and supervision. Photo: Santosh Verma/Bloomberg (Santosh Verma/Bloomberg)

Speeding financial inclusion in India

4 min read . 17 Jul 2013

Illustration: Jayachandran / Mint (Jayachandran / Mint )

Understanding fiscal stimulus

4 min read . 07 Jan 2009

Imaging: StockXpert

Oil’s not well on inflation front

4 min read . 22 May 2008

Illustration: Malay Karmakar / Mint

On the true law of one price

4 min read . 24 Mar 2008