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Experts Discuss Shift in MSME Lending Paradigm, Role of Financial Literacy

February, 2025






New Challenge to Create Digital Work Opportunities for 1M Women

November, 2024






How Social Commerce is Transforming Women-led Enterprises in India

November, 2024






Strategic Partnership: MoU Between Ministry of Rural Development and LEAD

October, 2024






How Nano Enterprises Are Defined in India?

September, 2024






Segmentation of Women-Led Nano and Micro-enterprises: A Guide to Knowledge Resources

September, 2024






Why India Needs 400 Million Women Workforce to Fuel India's $30 Trillion Economy

August, 2024






LEAD's Journey in Creating Impact and Shaping Research, Policy and Practice

May, 2024






Implementing Financial Health: Creating Mutual Success For Financial Service Providers and Clients

May, 2024






New Model Needed to Understand Adolescent Suicides

April, 2024






How Do Research Goals Adapt in a Changing World?

April, 2024






Women in the Workforce: What the Data Doesn’t Tell Us

March, 2024






Women at Work: Rise of the Homepreneurs

March, 2024






Reflecting on 2023: Our Year in Review

February, 2024






Strengthening and Scaling Gender Diverse MSMEs in Asia

February, 2024






How Can India's Gig Economy Save Better?

January, 2024






The ORF Gender Compendium: Women-Led Development

December, 2023






Crafting Connections: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

December, 2023






Enable Flexible Work to Bridge the Gender Gap

November, 2023






Women-led Indian Startups Surge to 18% In Past Five Years

November, 2023






Less Than 1 in Every 5 Startups in India Was Led by a Woman in 2022?

October, 2023






The Glaring Gender Gap in SMEs Must Be Bridged

October, 2023






Accountability Mechanisms for Inclusive City-Level Public Services in Asia

September, 2023






Fight Gender Inequality: Prioritising Women’s Customer Experience

August, 2023






Start-up Sisters Wait to be Funded, Feted

August, 2023






Average Salary of Gig Workers Lower Than Regular Urban Male Workers: Report

August, 2023






Power in Practice – or Only on Paper? Addressing the Financial Gaps

August, 2023






Long-term Impact of Karnataka's Shakti Scheme on Female Travelers

July, 2023






Advantages and Disadvantages of Work-from-Home Models for Women

June, 2023






Why India’s Microfinance Sector Needs to Prioritise Innovation

June, 2023






Improved Access to Finance, Timely Funding Can Transform India's Start-up Ecosystem

May, 2023






Helping Women Entrepreneurs Access Finance: What it Takes

May, 2023






Unlocking Working Capital Can Tackle Delayed Payments

April, 2023






Hybrid Work Can Improve Recruitment And Retention Rates Of Women Employees

March, 2023






Hybrid Models, Greater Flexibility Can Increase Women's Workforce Participation in India: Survey

March, 2023






What Women Need to Participate in the Changing World of Work

January, 2023






ACT For Women launches the Women in India’s Startup Ecosystem Report (WISER)

January, 2023






Financial Inclusion of Women: Current Evidence from India

December, 2022






Why Do Health Institutions Need To Focus On Gender Parity In Leadership?

December, 2022






Women Entrepreneurs In MSME Sector Ready To Shine But Are We Doing Enough For Them

November, 2022






20% Entrepreneurs Felt Stressed Everyday In The Pandemic

November, 2022






Are Gig Workers Nobody’s Employees?

October, 2022






WomenLift Health Announces Collaboration on Stakeholder Analysis with Partners

August, 2022






The Sapiens Lab Centre for Human Brain and Mind Inaugurated

August, 2022






Over 15% Of Gig Workers Face a Financial Deficit of Rs 5,000 on Average: Survey

July, 2022






LEAD Releases Coffee Table Book Celebrating Over 15 Years of Catalysing Change

July, 2022






Women and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

July, 2022






Entrepreneurship Skilling Can Attract More Women if Offered in a Qualification Framework

July, 2022






IIT-Madras Research Park Analyses How Inclusive is Fintech in New Report

June, 2022






LEAD and IWWAGE Measure Effect Of Hybrid Work On Female Labour Force Participation

June, 2022






DSEU and IWWAGE Release Study on Aspirational Women Entrepreneurs

June, 2022






India's Women Home-Based Workers Were Resilient In The Pandemic But Their Recovery Is Far From Over

May, 2022






LEAD Joins as an Ecosystem Partner For IITMRP and IITMIC's ‘Fintech for Inclusion’

June, 2022

Despite Policy Support, Labour Participation by Women Still Low

March, 2022






Minister Dr Arun Kumar Sahoo Addressed Farmer-Academician Platform

April, 2022






Diverse Stakeholders Discuss Green Recovery Strategies at Odisha Workshop

April, 2022

Researchers Study Delhi Schools’ Parent Outreach Programme

November, 2021

Evaluating the Role of External Factors in the Business of Clean Cookstoves

November, 2021

Investigating Barriers Hindering Rural Women Entrepreneurs Digital Growth

November, 2021

Digital Readiness of Rural Women Entrepreneurs Evolving: LEAD Study

October, 2021

Does Access Liberalise Gender Norms Around Phone Use for Rural Women?

October, 2021

LEAD Finds Rural Women Entrepreneurs Ready for Digitalization

October, 2021

Joint Accounts in the Fintech Era

October, 2021

Mapping Evidence to Advance Gender Equality in Agriculture and Food Systems

August, 2021

India Needs to Empower its Women Entrepreneur

July, 2021

Covid-19 Decimated Rural Women-led Enterprises

July, 2021

Elevating Gender Equality in COVID-19 Economic Recovery

June, 2021

2020 Lockdown Shut 11% Women MSMEs, only 1% Got Back on Feet with Govt Help, Finds Study

May, 2021

Tales of Grit and Survival: How Covid-19 is Redefining Business for Women Entrepreneurs

April, 2021

Supporting Women’s Collective Enterprises In Informal Sector: The Need Of The Hour

April, 2021

New Gates Foundation Research Calls For Focus On Childcare

8 March, 2021

How India could speed up the financial inclusion of women

8 March, 2021

WE HUB, LEAD sign MoU for strengthening women entrepreneurship in India

8 March, 2021

National Rural Livelihoods Mission and IWWAGE launches Gender Samvaad

March, 2021

Women-owned enterprises can be the engine for economic growth

8 March, 2021

WE HUB, LEAD sign MoU for strengthening women entrepreneurship in India

8 March, 2021

Women-owned enterprises can be the engine for economic growth

8 March, 2021

Will the pandemic undo generations’ worth of progress for women entrepreneurs?

27 January, 2021

Liquidity, cash availability a priority for MSMEs and informal sector

23 April, 2020

Coronavirus Outbreak: Bihar's rural poor at greater danger than rest of India

4 April, 2020

81% micro enterprises confident of recovery post coronavirus: Survey

9 August, 2020

Putting together a great webinar: Five steps to follow

22 September, 2020

Survey Says 57% SMEs Have No Cash Reserve To Recover from COVID-19

10 August, 2020

Krea University sets up Atal Incubation Centre to support rural artisans

9 September, 2020

COVID-19 impact on women-led micro biz widens socio-economic gap: Survey

30 November, 2020





Study Reveals Resilience, Innovation of India’s Women Entrepreneurs amid COVID

29 November, 2020

This Event Aims to Decode the Impact of COVID-19 on India

28 December, 2020

Women-Led Micro-Businesses At Risk As Covid-19 Widens Socio-economic Gap

29 December, 2020







Supporting Women-led Microenterprises through COVID and Beyond

3 August, 2020

Scoping Meso Level Insurance in Agriculture Sector in India

2020

Maharashtra lagging on child well-being

28 April, 2019

Payments: India’s cash conundrum

13 March, 2019

PayNearby,NITI Aayog and LEAD partner for ‘Digital Sashaktikaran’ of India

8 March, 2019

Kerala, TN, Himachal top India’s child well-being index, says report

27 August, 2019

Opinion | What fintechs must do to be successful

14 October, 2018

Payment Banks: A Reality Check

31 January, 2018

Hitting the bottom

9 January, 2018

Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea for India?

6 August, 2018

Opinion: What makes merchants adopt digital payments?

9 August, 2018

Can manufacturing change India’s demographic destiny?

5 September, 2018

VCCircle Summit: India lags in digital payments adoption, ahead on innovation

23 May, 2018

Despite high education levels, Kerala homes still use old-age cooking fuels

13 April, 2018

These five startups are taking fintech to the last mile

5 June, 2018

Opinion | Strategies to digitize small businesses

18 September, 2018

Opinion | Regulatory sandbox: A roadmap and use-cases

20 November, 2018

Kenya’s financial inclusion story, and ours

12 March, 2018

Digital payments have become a fashion statement

17 January, 2017

Partner Update

18 January, 2017







3-Day Digital Payment Camp in Barkat Nagar, covered by local dailies of Jaipur

24 March, 2017

Digital divide in India in access to net-banking, cashless payments

7 June, 2017

8th Catalyst FINposium, Jaipur

26 October, 2017

Best of 2017: Did Chennai learn anything from the 2015 floods?

28 December, 2017

USAID, Finance Ministry bring Catalyst for digital payments in India

18 October, 2016

USAID’s Catalyst to roll out digital payments pilot in Jaipur by January

28 November, 2016

The Catalyst initiative to educate 6 crore Indian merchants on digital payments

27 December, 2016

Chennai should levy Rs.30 per trip as congestion charge

30 April, 2015

Comics Designed to Teach Low-income Indian Women Financial Literacy

27 April, 2016





58% of women in India report difficulty accessing credit, savings, or jobs

22 May, 2015

Jan Dhan hits customer service barrier

20 May, 2015

Impact evaluation to be done

10 August, 2015






Why Do Small-Scale Business Owners Prefer Cash Transactions?

4 August, 2014






New Research on Barriers to Basic Savings Accounts in India

15 October, 2014






Empowering the Poor or the Rural Elite?

2 May, 2014






Financial Inclusion 2020: Round Up 2014

6 November, 2014

Chit funds or cheat funds?

21 May, 2013