Catalyst partnered with Kyepot technologies to study how informal chit funds or Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCAs) can be digitized and graduated to a formal platform. This field story captures Farida ben’s experience of transitioning her traditional chit fund … Read More
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Enroute Lakshya – Power of Savings to Meet Unending Possibilities
Catalyst
This field story captures insights from an initiative to expand access to formal savings accounts for low-income communities as part of Catalyst’s Incubator Initiative. Kaleidofin, a startup that was part of the first cohort of the program, seeks to empower … Read More
Fintech charcha on Catalyst Incubator
Catalyst organised a discussion with potential applicants to the Catalyst Incubator call to discuss the long-term support, design and research inputs and mentorship that the shortlisted solutions will receive as a part of the journey with the Catalyst Incubator. … Read More
Ideo – Catalyst Round Table: Designing a UPI Mass Activation Campaign
Catalyst and IDEO partnered to hosta design sprint to identify the pain points associated with a behaviour change from cash to digital payments for their mass UPI activation campaign. … Read More
Shifting Gears: On RCTs and Beyond
Mridulya Narasimhan, Advitha Arun
In addition to clinical biologists (and probably their assistants), every development-research enthusiast nowadays is fairly familiar with the term ‘Randomized Control Trials’ or RCTs, as they are fondly known. Since their inception in the early 2000s, RCTs have influenced research … Read More
On MSME Day, Recognizing the Potential of Small Businesses in the Indian Economy
Kanika Joshi
Small businesses are often hubs of entrepreneurship, employment and innovation, thereby playing a crucial role in the socio-economic development of any nation. In a much appreciated move, the United Nations (UN) general assembly on recently designated 27 June as Micro, … Read More
PRICE-Catalyst Research Round Table
Catalyst engaged sector experts in a roundtable discussion to provide inputs on two key Catalyst research initiatives. … Read More
Round Table with Government of Rajasthan & Solution Partners
Catalyst held roundtable discussions with the Government of Rajasthan and solution partners to address the commencement & progress of Catalyst’s Digital Payments Lab Operations in Jaipur. … Read More
Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta, Sujata Visaria
In this paper, the authors explore the hypothesis that traditional joint-liability microfinance programs fail to increase borrower incomes in part because they cannot screen out unproductive borrowers. In randomly selected villages in West Bengal, India, a study was implemented in … Read More
Doubling Farmers’ Incomes: Strategies and Recommendations for Tamil Nadu
Ajay Tannirkulam, Suraj R Nair, Divya Mary
This report presents findings from a study that seeks to understand current income levels of farmers in the state, and understand the necessary actions and focus areas that needs to be prioritised. This also provides an opportunity to assess strategies … Read More
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