This study reviews the current landscape of digital financial service offerings and regulations in India, and also brings forth demand-side perspectives on using these services. … Read More
Projects
Empowering Women With Access to Affordable Child Care
With declining female labour force participation in India, this impact evaluation study aims to explore the influence of day care facilities on a range of social and economic outcomes on women and contribute to evidence in support of child care programmes for women empowerment. … Read More
Preferences, Use and Impact of Gold Savings Products in Migrant Corridors
This exploratory study examines the preferences, use and impact of gold savings product amongst migrant households in Kerala in order to better understand the potential impacts of alternate savings products and unpack the different aspects of financial behaviour. … Read More
Research Study on Start-up Ecosystem in Tamil Nadu
Study on the state of startup ecosystem in Tamil Nadu to present challenges and issues faced by startups to provide recommendations for a more enabling entrepreneurial environment. … 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
Productivity and Competition in India’s Brick Industry
This study examines the underlying role of financial misallocation in driving productivity dispersion, in India’s brick industry. … 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
Usage and Cross-Usage of Digital Financial Services across Agri Value Chains
With low digital literacy a major obstacle in achieving digital financial inclusivity, very little concern has gone towards the usability of digital financial services/products. This study examines the factors that influence the usability of digital products designed for farmers. … Read More
Review of BMGF/DFID Partnership Cities Project
This study reviews the outcomes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMFG)/UK Department of International Development (DfID) initiated partnership to promote private sector engagement in non-networked sanitation and improve capabilities of sanitation service authorities to govern these partnerships. … 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