Tag Search: “financial inclusion”
Policymaking in the ‘grey zone’
Prerna Mukharya, Founder of Outline India – a social enterprise that focuses on data collection, impact assessments and evaluation studies, predominantly working with rural populations in remote areas...
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Prerna Mukharya
17 November, 2016
- Notes from the Field
Kisan Credit Card programme: Expanded access to credit or expansion of credit?
Kisan Credit Card programme - a key reform in agricultural lending in India - has been operational for almost 20 years now. However, there is little empirical evidence of its impact on intended benefi...
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Somdeep Chatterjee
03 November, 2016
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I4I Panel Discussion: Two years of Modi government
In a panel discussion organised to mark the 4th anniversary of Ideas for India, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) moderates a discus...
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Pranab Bardhan
Parikshit Ghosh
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Mihir Sharma
29 August, 2016
- Videos
Land and financial misallocation in India
Optimising the allocation of factors of production – land, capital and labour - improves productivity. In India, where evidence suggests land is severely misallocated to inefficient manufacturing firm...
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Gilles Duranton
Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William Kerr
20 July, 2016
- Articles
Why is labour mobility in India so low?
Rural-to-urban migration is surprisingly low in India, compared with other large developing countries, leaving higher paying job opportunities unexploited. This column shows that well-functioning rura...
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Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig
04 July, 2016
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Access to credit and female labour supply in India
While microfinance is believed to have the potential to increase female labour force participation, short-term experimental evaluations of microfinance have not found significant economic benefits for...
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Erica Field
Rohini Pande
30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How do disclosures affect financial choices? The case of life insurance in India
Given the importance of insurance, and the regulatory push towards improved disclosures.
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Renuka Sane
Ajay Shah
30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Socially disadvantaged groups and microfinance in India
The benefits of microfinance are in the details. This column takes a look at lending by commercial banks in India to self-help groups – smaller, informal community-based groups – as a new and successf...
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Jean-Marie Baland
Rohini Somanathan
Lore Vandewalle
16 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The first two years of Modi government
In this article, Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, provides his perspective on the performance of the Modi government in ...
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Pranab Bardhan
11 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme
Private health insurance covering tertiary diseases is limited to the upper middle class in India. One reason for low take-up of publicly-financed health insurance among economically weaker sections i...
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Tarun Jain
12 April, 2016
- Articles
Achieving financial inclusion: Going cashless
A World Bank survey reveals that while about half of all individuals in India had bank accounts in 2014, only 12% had made a cashless transaction in the past year. In this article, Bappaditya Mukhopa...
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Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay
06 April, 2016
- Perspectives
Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme infor...
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Tarun Jain
31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India