Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

February 13, 2021 | Dvara Research

An analysis of literature on the socio-economic implications of sharing privately held NPD and the objectives of other comparable frameworks suggests that the rationale for some of these goals are unclear. They do not take into consideration the complete economic and social merits and demerits of sharing privately held NPD.

By The Future Of Finance Initiative
February 13, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework, December 2020

By The Future Of Finance Initiative
February 12, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we summarise the results from survey conducted to understand the challenges faced by rural households' in accessing and using formal financial services

By Monami Dasgupta, Misha Sharma
February 11, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this blog post, we propose a framework that can be used to document the various axes of exclusion in DBT against the broad policy context

By Aarushi Gupta
February 4, 2021 | Dvara Research

This paper report results from an experimental study that examines the impact of information disclosure on consumers’ purchase decision of a high-risk financial product

By Niyati Agrawal, Misha Sharma, Madhu Srinivas, Monami Dasgupta, Monika Halan
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
February 3, 2021 | Dvara Research

Reports of growing debt stress among microfinance borrowers in Assam follows a similar path as those in AP. In this post we analysis this issue and provide possible solutions

January 28, 2021 | Dvara Research

The household sector, comprising of individuals, households, proprietorships, and other non-corporate entities, has over INR 46 trillion as outstanding in the Indian formal credit market. The ability to access credit enables an individual and her household to gain better financial wellbeing and economic welfare outcomes, and an excess of credit can diminish any developmental gains. […]

January 28, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this report we propose Monitoring and Detection Framework for OID with twin outcomes in mind, that of financial stability and financial consumer protection

January 23, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this research brief, we use the income and expenditure data from CMIE to study the formal savings potential of the households over a period of six years

By Niyati Agrawal, Rakshith S. Ponnathpur