This study assesses the impact of an affordable and scalable financial capability intervention that delivered rules of thumb based business advice to entrepreneurs, via voice-based mobile phone messages. … Read More
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Incentivising Self-Help Groups to Influence Improved Sanitation Behaviors: Evidence from Rural Tamil Nadu
This study aims to understand and unpack the complex factors that influence latrine use in among rural households in India. … Read More
The Cream of the Crop: Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Microcredit Group Information
The study proposes an alternative means to measure entrepreneurial ability by leveraging existing networks of micro-credit clients to identify and target high ability entrepreneurs who can transition their enterprises to SMEs. … Read More
Assessing Value Chain Digitization
This exploratory research study aims to map and analyse the various value chains that low-income consumers and merchants transact in, to identify strategies for promoting digitisation. … Read More
Measurement of Latrine Use in Rural India
This study presents evidence from a measurement study on reported latrine use rates using alternative framing of questions to better identify indicators that accurately measure latrine use and support large-scale sanitation programmes. … Read More
Setting Up a Registered Chit Fund for Underserved Small Businesses and Low-Income Households: Rural and Urban Areas
This study examines the Chit Fund model in India and tests the viability of running a rural chit scheme by setting up and comparing the costs of running rural and urban chit schemes. … Read More
Understanding the Effects of De-Legalisation on Bank Account Holders
This study provides insights into the impacts of demonetization among low-income bank account holders and their change in behaviour, attitudes, and perceptions towards digital payments. … Read More
The Evolving Financial Ecosystem for Micro-Merchants in India
This study aims to gain deeper insights into the financial needs of micro-merchants and identify skill and capacity gaps that need to be addressed in order to ease their adoption of digital payments. … Read More
Evaluating the Efficacy of an App-Based Livestock Insurance Scheme in Rural India
This study evaluates the impact of making livestock insurance products digitally accessible and delivered through mobiles phones on uptake of insurance by farmers … Read More
Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India
The study evaluates the impact of financial literacy training on take-up of index-based rainfall insurance products. … Read More