The burden of microfinance debt: lessons from the ramanagaram financial diaries

Abstract

We wish to thank the erstwhile Microfinance Group of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Professor R. Srinivasan for making this study possible. We are grateful to our field workers Rathna, Sudhamani and Umarani for their support throughout. We especially wish to thank the anonymous referees of this journal for their insightful comments on the initial versions of this manuscript. Lastly, this study would not have been possible without our diary writers, the gutsy women of Hajinagar and Ambedkarnagar in Ramanagaram, Karnataka, India. The usual disclaimer applies.