Faculty Profile

Profile Summary

• Sunil Sangwan is presently working as assistant professor (Finance) at Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). Prior to join IRMA, he has taught at Christ University and Indian Institute of Information Technology Una (IIIT Una). He is equipped with three years of corporate experience, was associated with Bank of Baroda and Vardhman Textiles Ltd. He holds a Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in the area of  Entrepreneurial Finance (Microfinance). He completed his Master’s in Business Management (MBA) from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT) with a major in Finance. His teaching and research interests include impact evaluation, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, microfinance, development finance, financial inclusion, rural development, and financial accounting. 

  Sponsored Research Projects Engaged

  • Socio-Economic Survey (SIA) for the works of Dugwells for Dang District under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) (Coordinator).

  • Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, Distress Migration and Skill Development: An assessment in Odisha, sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

  • Assessment of the Convergence Activities under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA in Odisha, sponsored by NIRD and PR under MoRD, New Delhi.

  • Evaluating Effectiveness of The Channels of Financial Inclusion: A Study of Rural Odisha, Sponsored by ICSSR under IMPRESS, New Delhi,

  Google Scholar weblink: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JpeG5jcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

   

Courses

• Financial Inclusion and Microfinance

• Financial Accounting

• Financial Management

Journal(Article)

• Mia, M.A, Pellegrina, L.D., Zhang, C., & Sangwan, S. (2022). Efficiency-Wage and Productivity in The Microfinance Industry: An Answer to Mission Drift? IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review, 1-18

• Mia, M.A., Sangwan, S., Hussain, B., & Malim, N.A.K. (2021). Rural-Urban Financial Inclusion Through Microfinance: Implications on Cost Sustainability of Lenders. Managerial and Decision Economics

• Sangwan, S., Nayak, N.C., Harsita., & Sangwan, V. (2021). Borrowers` Credit Risk Factors, Perception Towards Repayment Interventions and Moral Hazard in Loan Delinquency: An Investigation of Indian Microfinance Institutions. Applied Economics, 53(56), 6554-6569.

• Sangwan, S., Nayak, N.C., Sangwan, V., & Pradhan, A.K. (2021). Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Ways Forward for the Indian Microfinance Institutions. Journal of Public Affairs, 21 (4), e2667.

• Sangwan, S. & Nayak, N.C. (2020). Factors Influencing the Borrower Loan Size in Microfinance Group Lending: A Survey from Indian Microfinance Institutions, Journal of Financial Economic Policy, 13(2), 223-238.

• Sangwan, S., & Nayak, N.C. (2021). Examining Mission Drift in Client Targeting among Indian For-Profit Microfinance Institutions: A Multidimensional Approach. Journal of Public Affairs, DOI:10.1002/pa.2622.

• Sangwan, S., & Nayak, N.C. (2020). Outreaching the Poor under Microfinance Institutions in India: Rhetoric versus Realities. Journal of Public Affairs, 20(4), e2161.

• Sangwan, S., Nayak, N.C., & Samanta, D. (2020). Loan Repayment Behavior among the Clients of Indian Microfinance Institutions: A Household Level Investigation. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 30 (4), 474-497.

• Sangwan, S. & Nayak, N.C. (2019). Do Outreach Approaches Differ Between Self-Help Group-Bank Linkage and Microfinance Institution-Based Microfinance? Evidences from Indian states. Journal of Social and Economic Development, 21, 93-115.

MDP-Coordinated

• Financing for Enterprise Development for VKP, (November 28 - December 1, 2023)

• Financing for Enterprise Development, (September 20 - 23, 2023)

• Finance for Non-Finance Executives, (August 22 - 25, 2023)

• Financial Control in Co-operatives, (June 27 - 30, 2023)

MDP-Instructed

• Skills and Entrepreneurship Development for University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, (January 20 - 23, 2023)

• Finance for Non-Finance Executives, (December 6 - 9, 2022)

• Working Capital Management, (May 16 - 18, 2022)

Research and Consulting

On going

• Skill Gap Assessment (SGA) for GLPCL (Member)
• GujWaterResources(419)-Evaluation of Scheme of PMKSY-HKKP-GW Irrigation (Coordinator)
• Principles of Accounting and Finance course at NRTI (Coordinator)