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Spotting the Stripes: Tourists’ Willingness to Pay for an Enhanced Wildlife Experience in Bandipur Tiger Reserve

This study estimates tourists’ Willingness to Pay (WTP) for an enhanced wildlife experience in order to inform policies and decision-making towards low-impact tourism in tiger reserves.
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An Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change

This study evaluates the design of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change, and provides actionable recommendations to facilitate policy implementation.  … Read More

Alternative Credit Scores for Small and Medium Enterprises

This study presents insights from an alternative credit scoring system, developed to address the shortage of data for informing credit decisions for the small and medium enterprise segment.  … Read More

Developing Financing Strategies for Implementing the State Action Plans on Climate Change

This project presents strategies for raising funds towards assisting the Central and State Governments in India to implement the State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) in an effective and efficient manner. … Read More

Door to Door Marketing of Chlorine Tablets

An investigation to study the influence of purchasing out of pressure, rather than genuine demand for the product alone, on product usage. … Read More

Savings Monitor: Deploying Local Social Networks To Mobilize Savings

This study examines the impact of monitoring interventions that encourage individuals to save, and their impact on businesses, household welfare and mitigation of financial shocks.  … Read More

Can Workforce Serve as a Substitute for Weather Insurance? The Case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh

This study examines whether workfare programs, such as NREGA, can provide coping mechanisms for low-income households, by stabilising income generation during economic shocks caused by weather risks. … Read More

The Importance of Hold-Up in Contracting: Evidence From a Field Experiment

This study explores how the relationship specificity of an investment affects the ex-ante structure of contracts and the ex-post resolution of an ensuing hold-up problem. … Read More

Documenting Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plains

An evaluation of the adoption of conservation agriculture within the intensive rice-wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. … Read More

Economic Activity Map of India

This study presents a map of India that identifies economic hot spots and growing cities and shows dominant economic activities at the district and town level, where users can contribute and download data. … Read More