As part of this project, LEAD is providing technical inputs on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to CGIAR’s GENDER platform initiative. … Read More
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Developing a Framework to Assess Socio-economic Value of Open Data in India
Sharon Buteau, Preethi Rao, Anshuman Kr Mehta, Vigneshraja Kadirvell
This paper attempts to develop a framework to assess the socioeconomic value of Open Data in India. The paper discusses the various actors, their roles vis-a-vis usage of Open Data to generate intended output, and the net results of expected … Read More
Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis of Tribal Populations in India
Deepti Kc, Samik Adhikari
This report presents insights from a baseline evaluation study to assess socioeconomic status in rural tribal regions of seven districts in five states: Chhattisgarh (Bastar, Kanker); Madhya Pradesh (Mandla, Shahdol); Orissa (Koraput); Rajasthan (Sirohi) and West Bengal (West Midnapur).
Increasing Women’s Participation in Community-based Livelihoods Interventions
Deepti Kc, Kalrav Acharya, Rajat Mookherjee
This report presents findings and lessons learnt from an assessment of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project – Jeevika.
Futures Prices Information for Small and Medium Farmers
Samik Adhikari, Gautam Gustav Bastian, Shawn Cole and David Yanagizawa-Drott
This policy paper reports on a series of interventions designed to enable farmers to use information from futures markets with the goal of helping them improve agricultural planning and decision-making, reduce their risk exposure, and increase harvest time revenue.
Social Networks and Microfinance
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew Jackson
The study of how network structures influence economic activity is increasingly becoming the subject of interest within Development Economics. This note summarises patterns of social interaction influence an individual’s economic behaviour including employment, career choice, consumption, investment, risk sharing and … Read More
Can Workfare Serve as a Substitute for Weather Insurance? The Case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh
Doug Johnson
In this paper, the authors attempt to assess whether a recently enacted workfare program in India, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), allowed potential participants to mitigate the effects of weather shocks by investigating whether participation levels in the … Read More
The Importance of Hold-up in Contracting : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Rajkamal Iyer, Antoinette Schoar
This paper 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.
Microfinance Bill 2007
Minakshi Ramji, Yusuke Taishi
On 20th March 2007, the Union Government introduced the Micro Financial Sector Development and Regulation Bill 2007 in the Lok Sabha – the lower house in the parliament of India. If passed, this bill may change the way in which … Read More
Improving the Use of Health Products: A Sales Experiment with Chlorine Tablets in India
Camille Boudot, Anita Mukherjee
In this paper, the authors present findings from a study that tested a door-to-door marketing intervention aimed to increase use of a tar- geted health product, in our setting chlorine tablets for drinking water purification. Specifically, they examine three treatments … Read More