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What to do to revive MSMEs
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
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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 unintended consequences of price control
The Growth Factor: Shadow banks and interest rate control; Mark Zuckerberg on messaging commerce; Algorithms for SMEs; MUDRA loans during lockdown
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Why MSMEs should look at climate financing
The Growth Factor: MSMEs, climate change, and climate financing; how digital tech can break the informal economy trap; investments into fintech
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How to get the workers back to factories
The Growth Factor: Ecommerce giants, startups, and the problem with co-opetition; innovations in the wedding industry; Amazon’s big exports push
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How to brand a humble piece of white cloth
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?
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Why Kanchipuram should weave stories
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
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What to copy from China
The Growth Factor: Local problems, global solutions; China strategy; MSME loans
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Why you should invite your competitors to dinner
The Growth Factor: Why you should invite your competitors to dinner; the inventory dilemma; in MSME financing, do women fare better than men?
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