This project will devise key indicators and a periodic monitoring plan to track the performance of the cluster program. Background The NRETP guidelines identify two types of clusters: artisanal and sectoral. The former are largely existing clusters that require revival … Read More
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Capacity Building On the Go (Massive Open Online Course Approach)
This project will use alternate pedagogy to build capacity among business development service providers and entrepreneurs. Background Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs) receive intensive training of 105 days as part of their program initiation. They, in turn, support first-generation entrepreneurs … Read More
Feasibility Study: e-Financial Management Solutions for Small Businesses
This project identified and disseminated key approaches that encourage book-keeping practices by micro/nano entrepreneurs. Background Entrepreneurs often have to seek support from others to record business information, which is based on recall rather than real-time documentation of transactions. This leads … Read More
Insights from a Survey of Common Service Centres (CSCs) in Chhattisgarh
Sampurna Basu, Abinaya Rengarajan
Established under the Government of India’s Digital India programme, Common Service Centres (CSCs) are local access points for the delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, and other B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of … Read More
Understanding How Social Interactions Shape Women’s Entrepreneurship
This qualitative study documents gender-specific barriers faced by women entrepreneurs and how their interactions with the ecosystem affect their business decisions and outcomes. … Read More
COVID-19 Enterprise Response Research
This study aimed to understand how women-led rural businesses fared during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and it was conducted across four states in India.
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Navigating the Research-Policy Interface during Crises Situations: What We Have Learned
Diksha Singh
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gripped India and the world in early March 2021, discussions about vaccination inequities, and reopening schools and public spaces caught our attention once again. Social media, particularly the Twitterverse, was inundated with … Read More
Recovery Roadmap for Micro and Small Enterprises in Telangana
Aishwarya Joshi
In the past year, India has been weathering unprecedented health, social and economic adversities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disrupted supply chains, poor access to finance and markets, and consumers’ limited propensity to spend have revealed the fault lines in … Read More
Tax Reforms to Increase the Viability of Business Correspondents
Fabrizio Valenti
Business correspondents (BCs) play an essential role in advancing financial inclusion and bringing financial services and products to unbanked and underbanked populations. RBI clearly recognizes and supports their role as stated in its financial inclusion strategy for 2020-2024 as well … Read More
Conducting a Systematic Review: Methodology and Steps
LEAD at Krea University
Systematic reviews have gained momentum as a key method of evidence synthesis in global development research in recent times. As defined in the Cochrane Handbook on Systematic reviews “Systematic reviews seek to collate evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria in … Read More
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