Explore some of the biggest questions around small businesses through the stories of MSME owners, bankers, investors, customers, employees and technologists.
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The Growth Factor: Raghuram Rajan on reviving MSMEs; Two SMB lending models for the future; How MSMs are faring: Good, bad or ugly; Emergency funds & rescue teams
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: Shadow banks and interest rate control; Mark Zuckerberg on messaging commerce; Algorithms for SMEs; MUDRA loans during lockdown
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: MSMEs, climate change, and climate financing; how digital tech can break the informal economy trap; investments into fintech
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: Ecommerce giants, startups, and the problem with co-opetition; innovations in the wedding industry; Amazon’s big exports push
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: How Ramraj Cotton veshtis became a brand; how the pandemic is making exclusion worse; Khadi: sales are up, but what about employment?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: The way ahead for Kanchipuram’s silk sari weavers; what MSMEs can learn from the school of fish; can MSMEs account for 60% of exports in two years
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: Local problems, global solutions; China strategy; MSME loans
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor: Why you should invite your competitors to dinner; the inventory dilemma; in MSME financing, do women fare better than men?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor Weekly: The path-dependent nature of all systems; being opportunistic and strategic; will private banks, NBFCs rise to the MSME challenge?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
The Growth Factor Weekly: Systems view for finance, when going debt-free comes back to bite you, who will fund the MSMEs?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
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