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COVID-19 Enterprise Response Research

This study aimed to understand how women-led rural businesses fared during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and it was conducted across four states in India.
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Policy Dialogue on Innovative Solutions for Achieving City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation

Partners: Asian Development Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan Sanitation Consortium, Stanford University Sujatha Srinivasan, Senior Research Fellow, LEAD at Krea University participated and shared insights in an interactive policy dialogue convened by ADBI and … Read More

Measuring What Matters: An Indian Index for Women Entrepreneurship

Partners: Global Alliance For Mass Entrepreneurship (G.A.M.E), India Morchan Karthick, Data Scientist from LEAD was a panelist in a webinar on creating an index for women entrepreneurship suited to the local context, organised by Global Alliance For Mass Entrepreneurship (G.A.M.E … Read More

Calling the Shots: Determinants of Financial Decision-making and Behavior in Domestic Migrant Households in India

Vinith Kurian, Shashank Sreedharan and Fabrizio Valenti

Households, like individuals, rely on a variety of financial products and services: they use cash and credit cards to make payments and they make investments to finance future expenses, buy insurance to manage risks to themselves and their assets, and … Read More

Moving the Clean Cookstoves Sector Forward: Six Principles for Investors

Fabrizio Valenti, Mitzi Perez Padilla

Around 3 billion people across the world rely on solid fuels for their daily cooking needs. The adverse effects of traditional cooking methods on health, socio-economic and environmental conditions, especially among women, are well documented. Clean cookstoves promise a solution to these … Read More

Roadmap for Digital Technology to Foster India’s MSME Ecosystem—Opportunities and Challenges

Sharon Buteau

Digital technology can significantly enable India’s MSME segment, provided the emerging infrastructure has joint buy-in from the government, solution providers and importantly users. The digital landscape catering to micro and small entrepreneurs has drastically changed in recent years. The challenges … Read More

Country Case Studies—Adoption of Clean Cooking Solutions

LEAD at Krea University

Governments play a key role in fostering an enabling environment for the growth of the cookstove industry. This infographic commissioned by FMO and conducted by LEAD at Krea University, highlights adoption rates of clean cooking solutions, their policy environment and … Read More

Impact and Determinants of Clean Cookstoves Businesses

LEAD at Krea University

This infographic commissioned by FMO and conducted by LEAD at Krea University summarises findings from the report of literature on clean cooking solutions, captures the pathways to change and the diverse impacts of adopting efficient cookstoves on health, economic, and … Read More

Clean Cookstoves: Impact and Determinants of Adoption and Market Success

LEAD at Krea University

Three billion people across the world rely on solid fuels for their daily cooking needs. The negative effects of traditional cooking methods on health, environmental, and socio-economic conditions, especially of women, have been well-documented, and clean cookstoves provide a promising … Read More

Plugging the MSME Finance Gap in India: Assessment of investment in Vistaar Finance

This study examines the effects of Dutch Entrepreneurial Bank FMO’s investment in NBFC Vistaar Financial Services. … Read More