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Papers In Peer Reviewed Journals

These are papers by members of Dvara Research that get published in academic journals and not on our own website or any other media outlet.

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October 6, 2025 | IBBI

This paper focuses on Part III of the IBC, which deals with natural persons, proprietorships, and personal guarantors for corporate debt.

September 8, 2025 | State of the Sector Report

This article aims to provide a preliminary estimate of the credit requirements of FPOs, drawing on the experience of professionals who have been closely associated with FPOs for several years in their development and operations.

By Priyadarshini Ganesan, Aashish Argade, IRMA
December 17, 2024 | IFI Reports

This chapter emphasises the realities of the sector that create a feedback loop, where lenders are incentivised to over-lend and borrowers to over-borrow, until crisis intervenes as a necessary and often tragic correction

December 1, 2023 | IFI Reports

Advancing women’s financial inclusion is a key policy objective for both advanced and emerging economies. Providing access to formal finance is seen as an important lever in helping poor women seize economic opportunities and build a resilient future for themselves and their families.

June 3, 2023 | Economic and Political Weekly

Analysing the contents of the Reserve Bank of India’s biannual FSRs and the methodology of the RBI’s supervisory stress tests reveals that there is scope for improvement, specifically regarding the continuity in the tracking of certain risk drivers, the extent of commentary on the information, and aspects of stress tests.

By Amulya Neelam
May 6, 2023 | Economic and Political Weekly

Large gaps exist in life insurance coverage in India. The paper examines this issue through a supply-side lens by examining the two key features—the distinction between the agent and the broker model and the alignment of incentive structures with product life-cycle servicing.

By Sowmini G Prasad, Deepti George
April 26, 2023 | Science Direct

Financing of health systems is an enduring concern world wide. Yazbeck and colleagues in their paper make an important point that when there is a choice between financing in which contributions from citizens take place in the form of generalised taxes versus those in which they are in the form of insurance premiums, the overwhelming evidence suggests that tax-based financing is unambiguously superior even in low- and middle-income countries. Despite the strength of their case against contributory insurance, we suggest that the path forward may be more complex than they envisage for a number of reasons.

By Dr. Nachiket Mor, Hasna Ashraf
March 10, 2023 | Dvara Research

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code) is the umbrella legislation for insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals

January 27, 2023 | Elsevier

We argue that cooperative healthcare can be a viable pathway towards UHC in India only when characterised by some form of managed care structure that is designed to deliver the dual objective of healthcare access and financial risk protection.

By Hasna Ashraf, Dr. Nachiket Mor
January 23, 2023 | Dvara Research

The Inclusive Finance India Report is a comprehensive and well-researched account on cumulative progress made in India toward reaching the ambitious goal of universal financial inclusion.

By Dr. Indradeep Ghosh, Susan Thomas, XKDR Forum, Dvara Research