Theme: Covid-19-Pandemic

The Social Protection Initiative at Dvara Research has collaborated with the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) to document the accessibility of key banking facilities during the COVID-19 lockdown.

In the wake of COVID-19 related lockdown and the resultant impact on the financial lives of millions of households, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved a series of regulatory measures, which among others, enabled lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a 6 month-repayment moratorium on term loans. A debt moratorium at this scale […]

In this post, we highlight how in the face of widespread loss of income, households relied on an informal economy, often at high costs

Given the extent of liquidity shock caused by Covid-19, the Reserve Bank of India enabled all lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a repayment moratorium on term loans until 31 August 2020.

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)

The goal cannot be eliminating all MSME failure as we simply don’t have the resources to provide that magnitude of a backstop.

In this policy brief, we explore four simple suggestions that can potentially have a significant impact in easing the hardships of unorganised sector households.

Summary of the different types of responses by governments across the world to ensure the economic protection