IFMR LEAD
Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development
Search
Facebook Twitter Linkden

Primary Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About us
  • Our Work
    • Projects
    • Initiatives
    • Publications
  • Careers
  • Blog
  • NEWS & EVENTS
  • Contact us
  • About
  • OUR WORK
  • Centres
  • Featured Projects
  • Focus Areas
    • Credit
    • Savings
    • Insurance & Pensions
    • Livelihoods
    • SME Finance
    • Policy & Regulation
    • Environment & Climate Change
    • Infrastructure & Governance
  • Projects
    • Centre for Microfinance
    • Centre for Development Finance
    • Small Enterprise Finance Centre
  • Publications
    • Working Papers
    • Policy Memos
    • Briefs & Focus Notes
    • Case Studies
    • Reports
    • Published Papers

PUBLICATIONS

Working Papers

A Decade of Impact Investing in India

February 2016 - Sharon Buteau, Pratibha Joshi, Sirish Dhurjety and Advitha Arun
Lead Centre: SEFC
Focus Area: SME Finance

Impact investments are those that create social or environmental impact and at the same time generate a financial return. While globally impact investing or socially responsible finance has been growing and constantly gaining attention from academic as well as corporate circles, the industry is still at a nascent stage in India. This paper presents a snapshot of growth of the impact investing industry in India over the decade 2005-2015. It also presents potential ways for the industry to develop, taking into account the recent developments in India.

Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems

September 2009 - Jessica Seddon, Ramesh Srinivasan
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Infrastructure & Governance

This paper extends pre-existing digital divide conceptualizations to further investigate the important issue of mismatches between the ontologies that state-created information systems and local, community preferences are embedded in. We argue that the reconciliation of these diverse logics and framings is critical for the effective engagement with communities as well as formulation and implementation of development policies. We suggest several paths toward overcoming mismatched ontologies that would enable communities to be directly involved and productively engaged in developing shared ontologies. These mechanisms would also help policymakers to avoid ‘information loss’ due to ontology mismatch while preserving their ability to develop scalable, comparative perspectives to guide policies.

Financial Disclosure in Local Governments: A Comparative Study

November 2009 - Sujatha Srinivasan
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Infrastructure and Governance

This paper attempts to map out the financial reporting and disclosure practices prevalent in the public sector across the world. A specific focus is given to the US because of its considerable history in developing and enforcing reporting standards that have continually evolved in response to mounting demands on transparency and accountability in the public sector. The paper also examines the accounting and financial reporting reforms that have taken place in the public sector of certain European and Asian countries. This paper also examines in comparative context the significant reforms being introduced in the public accounting system in India over the past decade.

Economic Governance Index- Measuring Economic Governance at District Level

June 2008 - Santosh Singh
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Infrastructure and Governance

This concept note highlights the need of measuring economic governance at district level and proposes a methodology and list of indicators for developing an index which captures different aspects of economic governance at sub-state level.

Pushing Lenders to Over-comply with Environmental Regulations: A Developing Country Perspective

April 2009 - Parashar Kulkarni
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Environment and Climate Change

In the past few years, the number of lenders adopting voluntary environmental codes, such as the Equator Principles, is increasing. The main reasons for this form of over-compliance include warm glow preferences of agents, credit risk and incentives arising from regulation. Empirical evidence suggests that lenders that over-comply are generally bigger than those that don’t. In particular, they are likely to be MNCs. In addition, the behaviour of overcomplying lenders differs from other lenders, for instance they are more likely to incorporate environmental risks in their lending practises. In the context of developing countries, incentives that promote over-compliance exist to a much lesser degree. Analysing the regulatory environment in developing countries, we find no compelling reason for regulators to encourage voluntary initiatives such as the Equator Principles.

Next →

Quick Links

  • OUR WORK
  • people
  • projects
  • Centres
  • Careers
  • publications
  • Focus Areas
  • testimonials
  • Contact us

Branding by Sumithra Prasanna. Copyright © 2021 IFMR LEAD. All rights are reserved.

Close