Fingpay, a biometrics-based payments platform, seeks to facilitate seamless transactions without the need for customers to carry cash, cards, or phones on them. In this piece, co-founder of Fingpay, Pratyush Halen, shares insights from Fingpay’s journey in digitising payments using … Read More
Publications
In BHIM We Trust
This field story captures the experience of small merchants in adopting and using the BHIM UPI application. Merchants were onboarded to the BHIM QR code platform as part of Catalyst’s experiments to test strategies for enabling digital payment adoption in … Read More
Unlocking Finance for Small Merchants – from Digital Data to Digital Credit
Digitizing merchant can payments generate data trails that can be used by financial service provider to assess the credit worthiness of small merchants. This field story captures insights from a Catalyst experiment in which micromerchants were provided with a Point … Read More
Age just a Number when it Comes to Digital Payments
This field story captures insights on customer experiences with transacting digitally at e-Mitra outlets. These outlets provide a range of government and private sector services, from bill payments to college admissions, through kiosks.
Conservation Agriculture: Documenting Adoption across the Gangetic Plains of India
Research efforts of the CGIAR have since been instrumental in adapting CA practices to cropping systems found across the developing world. This report presents findings from a study that rigorously evaluates the adoption of CA within the intensive rice-wheat cropping … Read More
Early Stage Assessment of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
This report presents insights from an early stage assessment of the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, conducted by LEAD and Dvara Research.
Inclusive Growth Through Micro-finance And Entrepreneurial Training
This report presents insights from a study that assesses the impact of an SHG based microfinance model on the overall well-being of low-income households in terms of household’s investment capacity and consumption, occupation and income profiles, women’s bargaining power within … Read More
Landscape of Crop and Livestock Insurance in India
This brief presents an overview of findings from a detailed landscape assessment of agricultural insurance in India, with a focus on crop and livestock insurance. It provides an insight into the current landscape of products available in the sector, and … Read More
Nurse and Physician Reflections on the Application of a Quality Standards Training Program to Reduce Maternal Mortality
Low and middle income countries are characterised by high rates of maternal mortality, in spite of a rise in facility-supported births. This warrants a need to assess the quality of maternal care. The current study evaluated provider perspectives on teaching … Read More
Understanding the Impact of Demonetization on Bank Account Holders from Low Income Households
This study, conducted by IFMR LEAD, attempts to contribute to the ongoing debate of the short and long-term effects of demonetization on low income households who while formally banked, are among the most prone to adverse effects of demonetization policy, … Read More