Pallavi Vijay Chavan

Biographic Data

ID5804543
NAMEPallavi Vijay Chavan
GIVEN NAMESPallavi Vijay
FAMILY NAMEChavan
SIGNATURECHAVAN P V
ORCID0000-0002-1507-274X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • MBF 2025-wl-7119-Financial Inclusion in India – Context, Policy Approach and Outcomes

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay ChavanARTICLEEconomic and political…2025

    The paper looks at the process of financial inclusion in India by laying out its context, policy approach and outcomes, while highlighting the areas for future reforms. India offers a rich context to financial inclusion starting with the creation of credit cooperatives in the pre-Independence period. The paper argues that the current drive for universalising and digitalising the access to finance reflects a blend of the ‘activist’ and ‘modernist’…

  • Wl-6979-Digital Financial Inclusion

    Kaustav K Sarkar, Kaustav K Sarkar Kaustav K Sarkar et al.ARTICLEEconomic and political…2025

    Digitalisation holds enormous promise for financial inclusion in taking the basic financial services to the last mile and their smallest user. The global advent of digital financial inclusion (DFI) so far has been in the form of a near-universalisation of the access to bank/mobile money accounts and a rapid spread of retail digital payments. DFI in India too has been spearheaded by digital payments, revolutionised by its Unified Payments Interfac…

  • Financial Inclusion in Rural India

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay Chavan et al.ARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2024

    This paper analyses the current state of financial inclusion in rural India using secondary data sources. It analyses all four services included in the Reserve Bank of Indiaâ€TMs (RBI) definition of financial inclusion, namely bank deposits, bank credit, digital and other payments, and insurance services. In this paper, financial inclusion refers not just to access and use of (formal) finance but also its affordability. The paper argues that whil…

  • Women’s Access to Banking in India

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay ChavanARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2020

    There has been an increase in women’s share in bank credit in India in recent years, which includes credit given directly to women and indirectly via microfinance institutions that lend to women. However, bank credit to women has not grown as fast as credit given to men, resulting in a widening gender gap. The gender gap in credit is even wider when the credit received by women and men is seen as a ratio of the bank deposits they contribute. Cred…

  • Bank Credit to Agriculture in India in the 2000s

    R Ramakumar, Pallavi Chavan et al.ARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2014

    Agricultural Finance, International Development

  • The Access of Dalit Borrowers in India’s Rural Areas to Bank Credit

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay ChavanARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2012

    Agricultural Finance, International Development, Labor and Human Capital

  • Debt of Rural Households in India

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay ChavanARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2012

    AIDIS, rural credit, sample size, village surveys

  • Microfinance under Neoliberalism

    Pallavi Chavan, Pallavi Vijay ChavanARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2011

    Financial Economics, International Development

  • Changes in the Number of Rural Bank Branches in India, 1991 to 2008

    R Ramakumar, Pallavi Chavan et al.ARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2011

    Agricultural Finance, Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development