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Our opinion editorials are published in newspapers, magazines, and new-age online publications. They are an important tool for public discourse and advocacy. They help us to raise awareness about important issues, and they often provide a platform for perspectives from our researchers, to be presented and to be heard.

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February 25, 2021 | ThePrint

India urgently needs a range of entities to solve for the vast diversity in its credit intermediation requirements, including in infrastructure financing.

By Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deepti George
February 3, 2021 | The Hindu

During the Budget speech, the Finance inister talked about the 20-year long process of implementing the labour codes in India.

By Nishanth Kumar
January 8, 2021 | Financial Express

Covid-19 has exposed how ESIS and the ESIC system have failed beneficiaries; there is a need for reform involving outcome-measuring, better governance, and competition

By Bindu Ananth, Manish Sabharwal
January 7, 2021 | NDTV Profit

The best banks are boring banks, whose strength is in the maturity of their processes for managing capital, writes Nachiket Mor.

By Dr. Nachiket Mor, Deepti George
January 7, 2021 | NDTV Profit

Banks in India will need to work hard to build a well-functioning ‘internal market’, which at the moment is quite broken.

By Dr. Nachiket Mor, Madhu Srinivas
January 5, 2021 | Moneycontrol

SEBI needs to clearly define who a retail consumer is and ensure that this definition is inclusive enough that it accounts for the universe of consumers that are susceptible to the mis-selling of financial products and services

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
September 17, 2020 | The Economic Times

By Malavika Raghavan & Srikara PrasadOn August 30, Paytm Mall allegedly suffered a massive data breach after being targeted of a group of hackers. The allegations were made by Cyble, a US cyber-risk intelligence firm. These were immediately denied by Paytm Mall, which, in turn, threatened to take legal action against Cyble. Meanwhile, customers and vendors have no way of verifying whether a breach occurred, or if their data has been compromised,

By Malavika Raghavan, Srikara Prasad
September 11, 2020 | Social Protection

In this blog post we study the privatisation of grants system in the South Africa

September 5, 2020 | Financial Express

Setting up the first regulated, non-profit focused ‘social stock exchange-listed’ social venture fund can be a major milestone for India’s non-profit sector

By Deepti George, Varad Pande
August 11, 2020 | NDTV Profit

Reforms to PSL can have tremendous impact both on regional/sectoral development as well as improving the quality of bank assets.