In this paper, authors share findings from a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products, which provide high commissions to the agent. Agents … Read More
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Understanding the Advice of Commissions-motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market
Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, Shayak Sarkar
Jan Dhan Yojana: Just Another Empty Vessel Making Noise?
Mridulya Narasimhan
On 28th August 2014, the Indian government launched Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), yet another flagship project with an aim to ensure affordable financial services and complete financial inclusion. Under the programme each account holder is covered by life … Read More
Role of Temporal Diversity in Inferring Social Ties Based on Spatio-temporal Data
Deshana Desai, Harsh Nisar, Rishab Bhardawaj
The last two decades have seen a tremendous surge in research on social networks and their implications. In this paper, the authors introduce DAIICT Spatio-Temporal Network (DSSN), a spatiotemporal dataset of 0.7 million data points of continuous location data logged … Read More
Providing New Homes for Climate Change Exiles. Climate Policy (Vol. 6:2)
Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir Chella Rajan
Given a certain pre-existing commitment to sea-level rise due to the long thermal lags of the ocean system, several million people living in coastal areas and small islands will inevitably be displaced by the middle of the century. These climate … Read More
Training programme for BIGD, Bangladesh
IFMR LEAD organized a rapid immersion programme on ‘Social Research Methods’ as part of their ongoing collaboration with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, Bangladesh. … Read More
Child Care: Whose Responsibility is it?
Anoushaka Chandrashekar
How many of us had our fathers waking us up to get us ready for school, cooking meals for us, attending parent teacher meetings, and being home when we returned from school? – I didn’t. And the majority of the … Read More
Inclusive Finance India Summit 2015
LEAD Research Team
IFMR LEAD recently collaborated with Access Assist as technical partner for the successful Inclusive Finance India Summit – A global platform for deliberating on issues related to financial inclusion, financial education and financial stability, and for building a Financial Inclusion … Read More
COP 21: Passage Across Climate Change Transition – the Need for India to Press for Equity
LEAD Research Team
The recent report titled “’The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction” provided evidence based discussions on 5 major countries (US, China, India, Philippines & Indonesia) affected by Climate Change ought to … Read More
Agriculture, Finance and Technology: What can Africa Learn from India?
Emmanuel Sulle
As one of the earliest countries to implement the Green Revolution in agriculture in the early 1960s, India has many lessons to offer to Africa both in terms of its successes and challenges. These lessons can be harnessed through continued … Read More
Inclusive Finance Week 2015
IFMR LEAD collaborated with Access Assist as technical partner for the Inclusive Finance India Summit – A global platform for deliberating on issues related to financial inclusion, financial education and financial stability, and for building a Financial Inclusion Vision 2020 … Read More
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