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We produce blogs to discuss new research findings, ongoing projects, and even personal reflections on the research process. Our blogs are written for a variety of audiences, including other researchers, policymakers, practitioners, financial service providers, grassroots organizations, impact investors and the public. The format is simple and easy to grasp. The language is straightforward, and the tone is non-academic. Our blogs can be of varying lengths. We choose to write a blog when we don’t want to do a full- fledged study or follow a rigorous research process. Blogs may contain opinions and they can also be based on experiences. Some of our blogs may just share some observations, learnings, or challenges.

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April 12, 2012 | Dvara Research

As we move towards a financial market with increasing product complexity, information disclosures alone will not lead to improved customer outcomes.

By Darshana Rajendran
April 3, 2012 | Dvara Research

In our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post represents the second part in a two part series that charts out the historical evolution of the various sources of consumers’ rights in India today.

By Jayshree Venkatesan
March 23, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post represents the first part in a two part series that charts out the historical evolution of the various sources of consumers’ rights in India today.

By Jayanth Srinivasan
March 20, 2012 | Dvara Research

This post is a continuation of our Consumer Protection blog series. The next two posts would look at the Evolution of Consumer Protection Laws in India.

By Deepti George, Darshana Rajendran
March 15, 2012 | Dvara Research

This post first appeared as part of CGAP's series on "Financial Capability and Bridging the Gap".

By Dvara Research
March 13, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post studies an important South African legislation aimed at consumer protection and also looks at the overall landscape for consumer recourse in the South African Financial Services sector.

By Darshana Rajendran
March 6, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post looks at the approaches to financial regulation and supervision and studies the financial regulatory structure of South Africa.

By Darshana Rajendran
February 28, 2012 | Dvara Research

Subsequent to our earlier post in the Consumer Protection series, this post covers conduct and disclosure obligations of Australian Financial Services (AFS) License holders for provision of advice to retail clients.

By Deepti George
February 21, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing on our series on ‘Consumer Protection’, we will take a look at how consumer protection has found its place within the regulatory architecture of select countries, namely Australia and South Africa.

By Deepti George
February 8, 2012 | Dvara Research

A recent report titled “Latest findings from Randomized Evaluations of microfinance” by Jonathan Bauchet, Cristoball Marshall, Laura Starita, Jeanette Thomas and Anna Yalouris, throws a lot of interesting insights into the realm of randomized evaluations and how they are being increasingly used by researchers across the globe to better understand financial services for the poor and the impacts achieved when an appropriate financial intervention is introduced.

By Kenny Roger