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 Iyer, 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

By Deepti George, Dr. Indradeep Ghosh
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

By Anjali Nambiar
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

By Aarushi Gupta, Anjali Nambiar, Aishwarya Iyer