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
Blogs
Agriculture, Finance and Technology: What can Africa Learn from India?
Emmanuel Sulle | December 10, 2015
Government Inaction Hurts RBI’s Efforts, Dismisses Favorable International Environment
LEAD Research Team | November 30, 2015
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
Interview with Charity Moore on Evidence-based Decision-making in India
LEAD Research Team | November 10, 2015
Charity Troyer Moore is the India Director for Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University. She is leading the project, “Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE),” implemented in India by EPoD and IFMR LEAD. We recently took the … Read More
Why Aren’t India’s Women Working- The New York Times Op-ed
Rohini Pandey, Charity Troyer Moore | November 6, 2015
Usually, economic growth in lower-middle-income countries creates more jobs for women. But as India’s economy grew at an average of 7 percent between 2004 and 2011, its female labor force participation fell by seven percentage points, to 24 percent from … Read More
WASHing Poverty Away with Awareness and Investment
Ankur Gautam | November 2, 2015
A good part of my college days was spent in commuting from my home to college in a train. A lot of passengers, including me, would know that the station is approaching from the stench caused by open defecation by … Read More
2015: The year of Digital and Financial Inclusion in India?
LEAD Research Team | October 30, 2015
2015 is set to be a watershed year for the growth and deepening of banking and financial services in India. The Reserve Bank of India and the Union Government, have accorded policy priority to ‘Financial Inclusion’ through an array of … Read More
What is Open Data and why is it Important for Development?
LEAD Research Team | September 15, 2015
According to the Open Data Handbook Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike. One particular category of Open Data is called … Read More
Basic Field Research Pitfalls that Sabotage our Research
LEAD Research Team | September 10, 2015
Isn’t research exciting? We can help identity problems that are perhaps not apparent on the surface and yet exist, or are likely to arise in the future; at the same time, we also help practitioners arrive at solutions. It is … Read More
Soil Economics – The Science in the Economics
Nikita Taniparti, Suraj Nair | September 3, 2015
The Earth is covered with soil: soil on farmlands, soil on the sea floor, soil on our shoes as we walk into an apartment. But past its omnipresence, soil is a microcosm of biodiversity in and of itself. Laden with … Read More
Financiers in the Informal Money-lending Market
Nikita Taniparti, Suraj Nair | August 10, 2015
Access to money, and more broadly, access to finance and economic empowerment are at the heart of economic growth and development. Very often, financial freedom is restricted due to various economic, social, and in a few instances, political constraints. Rural … Read More
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