Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

June 22, 2021 | CNBC TV18

From a student perspective, there are several challenges associated with paying for any form of higher education, which requires a greater level of commitment in terms of cost.

By Sowmini G Prasad, Dr. Nachiket Mor
June 18, 2021 | Dvara Research

BharatBazaar aims to create a hyperlocal model that addresses entrepreneurs’ repeated need for working capital at its root

By Shrinidhi V
June 17, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this slide deck, we explore the impact of COVID-19 on remittances at a broad, national level by using India’s largest household-level panel dataset

By Rakshith S. Ponnathpur
June 16, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this post, we analyse CoWIN, a digtial platform which facilates India's vaccination effort

By Aishwarya Narayan, Lakshay Narang
June 16, 2021 | Dvara Research

This post captures comments by Dvara Research to the report of the SEBI Technical Group on Social Stock Exchange

June 15, 2021 | tandfonline

India’s post-GFC digital financial inclusion project has been conveyed by an officially constructed polysemic narrative that connotes three distinctive semantic fields: (a) post-colonial Indian developmental policies; (b) post-GFC financialising neoliberal financial inclusion programmes; and (c) traditional Hindu religious values of money and wealth

By Dr. Indradeep Ghosh, Kadambari Shah
June 15, 2021 | Dvara Research

This paper provides a snapshot of the way digitisation through mobile phones plays out among women in India, based on a review of literature, semi-structured interviews

By Dr. Lina Sonne
June 14, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this post, we look at National Health Mission scheme and its rigid fund devolution architecture

June 3, 2021 | Dvara Research

As part of the 5th Dvara Research Conference on Household Finance primer series, in this post we discuss the theme "Savings and Financial Behavior"

June 1, 2021 | Dvara Research

As part of our ongoing research on DBT exclusion, in this case study we discuss how data entry error leads to failure of cash transfer