From local kirana stores to home-based food businesses, handicraft clusters to small manufacturers, MSMEs are a cornerstone of India’s growth story. MSMEs create employment at scale and are an integral pillar of their local communities. COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown … Read More
Blogs
Beyond Health Part II: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Financial Services in India
Anoushaka Chandrasekar , Fabrizio Valenti | June 9, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will undoubtedly send long-lasting shockwaves across all sectors and segments of society. To understand what this means for the Financial Inclusion sector, LEAD is taking a journey – virtual, of course – across India, speaking with experts … Read More
Responding To The Challenges Of Manufacturing In A COVID World – A Starting Point
Kanika Joshi, Lavanya Garg | June 4, 2020
This piece presents interesting insights from a design-thinking hackathon organised by Good Business Lab in collaboration with their industry partner Shahi Exports. The hackathon focused on developing practical guidelines to design an anxiety-free workplace experience for workers in the manufacturing sector. … Read More
No Place Like Home? Addressing Rising Domestic Violence During Lockdown
Vishaka Wadhwani, Jagannath R | May 12, 2020
Lockdown measures and stay at home orders as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a sharp increase in domestic violence as victims find themselves trapped at home with their abusers. This blog piece looks into policy interventions that can help mitigate the current situation as well as become part of counter-measures to epidemics in the long run.
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Boosting Financial Capabilities for Electric Vehicle Manufacturing in India
Arjun Malhotra, Soumyajit Bhar, Rahul Muralidharan | April 29, 2020
The second part of the blog series on Climate Finance in India, this piece looks at ways to leverage climate finance to push for more widespread adoption of electric vehicles in India. … Read More
Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on India’s Agricultural Sector
Sabina Yasmin | April 23, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a halt of economic activity globally, raising concerns regarding the demand and supply shocks to the food and agriculture sectors. Despite assurances from the Central Government of adequate food storage which can last for … Read More
Beyond Health: How the Covid-19 Pandemic is Impacting Financial Services in India
Neema Gupta, Fabrizio Valenti | April 22, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will undoubtedly send long-lasting shockwaves across all sectors and segments of society. To understand what this means for the Financial Inclusion sector, LEAD is taking a journey – virtual, of course – across India, speaking with experts … Read More
A Primer to Climate Finance in India
Rahul Muralidharan, Soumyajit Bhar, Arjun Malhotra | April 17, 2020
Introduction With an increasingly warming planet, climate change has been termed as an “emergency” by the United Nations Secretary-General, urging countries around the world to enhance their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). Under the Paris Agreement, each country is required to … Read More
From Custodians Of Traditional Knowledge To Community Change Agents
Deepanshu Khandelwal, Kanika Joshi | March 17, 2020
Kanika Joshi and Deepanshu Khandelwal share stories from their recent visit to Bikaner, Rajasthan, where they were present as part of LEAD’s collaboration with Rangsutra. Rangsutra is an artisan collective that has empowered and transformed the lives of thousands of artisans across the country. LEAD is supporting Rangsutra in their efforts toward digitizing their workflow and supply chain … Read More
Mobiles for Mobilization: can ICT Innovations Empower Women?
Shruti Sheopurkar | November 29, 2019
In this month’s story from the field, Research Associate Shruti Sheopurkar shares field notes and insights from a series of focus group discussions with women on the use of ICT and mobile phones. Twenty kilometers outside Raipur city in the … Read More
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