Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

September 21, 2020 | Dvara Research

Financial inclusion is a key aspect of sustainable economic growth. It helps households mobilise savings, smooth consumption and manage risks throughout their life cycles.

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September 18, 2020
September 17, 2020 | The Economic Times

By Malavika Raghavan & Srikara PrasadOn August 30, Paytm Mall allegedly suffered a massive data breach after being targeted of a group of hackers. The allegations were made by Cyble, a US cyber-risk intelligence firm. These were immediately denied by Paytm Mall, which, in turn, threatened to take legal action against Cyble. Meanwhile, customers and vendors have no way of verifying whether a breach occurred, or if their data has been compromised,

By Malavika Raghavan, Srikara Prasad
September 16, 2020 | Dvara Research

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

September 16, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this ongoing series, we will cover stories of citizens who have been excluded from social protection benefits delivered through the DBT and PDS.

September 14, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this report, we analyse the payments bank (PB) model in terms of the performance of individual PBs in furthering the goal of financial inclusion placed on the payments bank model.

By Amulya Neelam, Anukriti Tiwari
September 14, 2020 | Dvara Research

In this report we study the performance of the four fully operational Payments Bank

September 11, 2020 | Social Protection

In this blog post we study the privatisation of grants system in the South Africa

September 5, 2020 | Financial Express

Setting up the first regulated, non-profit focused ‘social stock exchange-listed’ social venture fund can be a major milestone for India’s non-profit sector

By Deepti George, Varad Pande