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Credit access and credit assessment of women-led businesses – Handicrafts and Handlooms

Research Team: Rigzom Wangchuk, Ria Dutta, M P Karthick, Kanika Joshi, Mridulya Narasimhan
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan
Status: Ongoing

This study aims to understand market access and enterprise readiness among women entrepreneurs in the handicrafts and handlooms sector in order to identify impediments to a more enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem for them. The handloom and handicrafts sector continues to be a major source of livelihood in a country that is predominantly agrarian. In addition to […]

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A Bird’s Eye View of Women Entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu

Research Team: John Victor Arunkumar, Mridulya Narasimhan, Ankur Gautam, Nidhi Punmia
Project Geography: 32 districts of Tamil Nadu, India
Status: Completed

In spite of the significant contribution of enterprises run by women to employment and economic output in India, they continue to face a number of barriers to sustainable growth. This study assesses the ecosystem for women-run micro, small and medium enterprises in Tamil Nadu, with a focus on the needs of women entrepreneurs, and identifies […]

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INFOSYS FOUNDATION ASSESSMENTS OF GRANTEES

Principal Investigators: Pratibha
Project Geography: All India
Status: Ongoing

IFMR LEAD is currently working on a national level evaluation of the Grantees of the Infosys Foundation Funding for the year 2014-15. This is a first ever Impact Assessment of grants awarded to the twenty five of the largest grantees of the Infosys Foundation. The assessment is being done in collaboration with Infosys Foundation, Bangalore […]

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IMPROVED NUTRITION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND DECISION MAKING

Principal Investigators: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University), Heather Schofield (University of Pennsylvania)
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, India
Status: Ongoing

One seventh of the world’s population remains below the level of caloric intake recommended by health professionals (FAO 2011). Given that food is not only a consumption good, but also an input into production, these low levels of intake have the potential to hinder labor market productivity, a fact modeled in a long line of […]

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THE IMPACT OF PAIN REDUCTION ON PRODUCTIVITY, COGNITIVE FUNCTION, AND DECISION MAKING

Principal Investigators: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University), Frank Schilbach (Harvard University), Heather Schofield (University of Pennsylvania), Anuj Shah (University of Chicago)
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, India
Status: Ongoing

Chronic pain appears to be highly prevalent among the poor and elderly in developing countries and it may have significant and widespread impacts on these individuals’ lives via a number of channels. Not only does pain directly reduce life quality and happiness, it may also lower productivity and incomes and hamper cognitive function and decision-making […]

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