Team: Venkatasubramanian, Santosh Kumar, Marc Roesch and 6 indian students

Objective: Pilot survey, village sampling and implementation of the quantitative survey (400 households in 10 villages)

Team: Magdalena Villarreal, Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and Venkatasubramanian

Objective:
 Revisiting places of fieldwork with our Mexican colleague, Magdalena Villarreal;
 Informal discussions with men and women in the villages, with lenders (informal lenders, microfinance institutions);
 Main topics: diversity of finance and labour landscape, social meaning of labour and finance, gender aspects of labour and finance, relations with microfinance institutions.

Team: Thanuja Mummidi

Objective: Cases studies of women entrepreneurs (Villipuram and Tiruvallur District)

Team: Ponnarasu

Objective: Cases studies of brick kilns households migrants (Villipuram District)

Team: Santosh Kumar and Venkatasubramanian

Objective:
 16 cases studies of microfinance clients who seem to be over-indebted; over the last 5 years they lost assets and are more indebted; clients have been chosen among a sample of 400 households (longitudinal survey 2004-2006-2009);
 Questions: What are the reasons of increased financial vulnerability? How people experience financial vulnerability?

Team: Marc Roesch, Santosh Kumar, Venkatasubramanian and 3 indian students

Objective:
 Third round of survey with 400 microfinance clients (2004-2006-2009);
 Focus on assets, indebtedness and livelihood.