This learning note explores the role of digital and financial inclusion in the economic empowerment of women and female entrepreneurship.
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Business Readiness Scorecard for Women
Rigzom Wangchuk, Ria Dutta, M P Karthick, Kanika Joshi
The Business Readiness Scorecard for Women-Handloom and Handicrafts Sector (WBRS-HHS) is a data-driven diagnostic tool, which attempts to identify key constraints and high-performance areas for home-based enterprises in the handloom and handicrafts sectors of India. The WBRS tool was developed … Read More
Access to Affordable Daycare and Women’s Economic Opportunities: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomised Intervention in India
Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper
In this paper, the authors used data from a cluster-randomized trial in rural Rajasthan, India to evaluate the impact of providing access to a community-based daycare program on women’s economic outcomes two years later. The sample included 2858 mothers with … Read More
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance
This study examines whether a development intervention that involves constant group interaction and standard microfinance lending, builds capital.
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Implementation of a Women-based Community Driven Development Programme in Tamil Nadu: The Pudhu Vaazhvu Project
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a women-based CDD Programme under the PVP of the Government of Tamil Nadu, its flaws, and possible improvements.
Understanding the Incentives of Commision Motivated Agents in Life Insurance: Theory and Evidence from Indian Life Insurance
This study examines how commissions influence insurance agents in revealing financial information to their customers and how customers use (or misuse) this information to make financial decisions. … Read More
Spotting the Stripes: Tourists’ Willingness to Pay for an Enhanced Wildlife Experience in Bandipur Tiger Reserve
This study estimates tourists’ Willingness to Pay (WTP) for an enhanced wildlife experience in order to inform policies and decision-making towards low-impact tourism in tiger reserves.
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Savings Monitor: Deploying Local Social Networks To Mobilize Savings
This study examines the impact of monitoring interventions that encourage individuals to save, and their impact on businesses, household welfare and mitigation of financial shocks. … Read More
Putting Money in Motion: How Much do Migrants Pay for Domestic Transfers?
The study provides insights into the different remittance channels that migrants opt for and the associated money-transfer costs they incur, to understand the various difficulties faced by migrants in transferring money within the country, despite considerable willingness to pay for safe and convenient mode of transfer. … Read More
No Policy is an Island: Finance and Food Security in India
This study evaluates the policies and their implementation encompassing the situation of finance and food security in India.
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