Author: Dvara Research

In this document, we present our response to the White Paper on the Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems (the White Paper) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in February 2020. We are deeply concerned that creating National Open Digital Ecosystems (NODEs) as envisioned in the White Paper could entrench existing problems with service delivery and hamper the growth of a free and fair digital economy.

In this blog post, we present our comments to the White Paper on Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems in response to the call for comments by MeitY

While phone access and ownership has been rising rapidly in India in recent years, women lag behind on access, usage and ownership of mobile phones across the world but especially in South Asia, including India.

This paper provides an analytical review of extant literature on how low-income women in India and in other countries in the Global South access and use mobile phones

Investment in gold by Indian households is motivated by social, economic, and cultural
factors.

Reflections on issues related to the delivery of benefits announced for migrant workers under Atma Nirbhar Bharat welfare scheme

In this policy brief, we identify some of the challenges in enrolling for and availing the benefits
under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana announced by the Central Government of
India.

In this policy brief, we address the concerns of last-mile delivery of welfare benefits announced under the Pradhan Mantri Gharib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY)

This policy brief identifies serious categories of transaction failures in the Aadhaar enabled Payment System or AePS in India together with solutions for urgent discussion

Household Finance is the study of how institutions provide goods and services to satisfy the financial functions of the household, how consumers make financial decisions and how government action affects the provision of financial services (Tufano, 2009).