Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

July 1, 2021 | Dvara Research

We undertook a study of how digitisation through mobile phones plays out among women and In this brief, we present findings relevant to financial service providers

By Dr. Lina Sonne
June 28, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this paper, we explore how India’s growing CHI segment can be used to deliver adequate financial protection and good health outcomes

By Hasna Ashraf, Dr. Indradeep Ghosh, Anjali Nambiar, Sowmini G Prasad, Nishanth Kumar
June 23, 2021 | Dvara Research

In this post, we analyse the RBI's proposed policy changes to payments and settlements sector and how they might impact the PBs and PPIs

By Amulya Neelam, Srikara Prasad
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

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

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