Bhavana Srivastava

Bhavana Srivastava
MSC

Bhavana is a partner at MSC, with over 23 years of experience. Her core focus of work is designing and managing large-scale financial inclusion programs funded by international agencies in various countries. She has designed, implemented and evaluated projects across the globe. Her expertise lies in institutional transformation, regulatory reviews, national strategy development, due diligence and assessment of DFIs and MFIs, SME banks and other FIs. She also leads the gender centrality work at MSC and is a regular speaker at various global conferences on women financial inclusion.

Articles by Bhavana Srivastava

Guest Articles

Monday
December 21
2020

Bhavana Srivastava / Akhand Jyoti Tiwari / Rahul Chatterjee / Abhishek Gupta

When Inclusion is Not Inclusive: What Needs to Change to Achieve Meaningful Financial Inclusion for Women

India has achieved impressive growth in women's financial inclusion — recent statistics show that 79% of the country's women are financially included. But according to analysts at MSC, there are troubling questions about whether these women are truly benefiting from their newfound financial access. They discuss why financial inclusion often fails to impact female customers, and how viewing financial services for women through the lens of gender centrality could help.

Categories
Finance

Tags
digital inclusion, financial inclusion

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