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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

Government Inaction Hurts RBI’s Efforts, Dismisses Favorable International Environment

LEAD Research Team

These are times when Central Bankers across advanced economies are finding it difficult to avoid polarization of opinion on the merits of their policy paths.  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Governor though has received an almost unequivocal endorsement from … Read More

Research Proposal Presentation Meeting,Cambodia

IFMR LEAD presented feedback on ongoing research in the area at the Greater Mekong Subregion Research Network (GMS-Net) hosted by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) in Phnom Penh. … Read More