In The Case for a Job Guarantee, Pavlina R. Tcherneva argues that a job guarantee that provides an employment opportunity to anyone looking for work, regardless of their personal circumstances or the state of the economy, not only makes good economic sense, but is vital for people’s wellbeing.
Solving the identity problem is necessary to enable a shift away from a survival mindset and towards a growth mindset
This blog post reviews the BIS paper, and offers some reflections and critiques based on the experience of these infrastructures in India.
In their book, In Service of the Republic, Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah warn against distortions caused by the government and its entities being both player and umpire in various sectors .
Innovative and blended finance structures, such as Social Venture Funds, offer a unique opportunity for nonprofits to secure new funding.
The Indian government has set into motion the implementation of several schemes that are aimed at improving both the liability and asset sides of the balance sheets of banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), so that lending to the real economy can increase. The most recently introduced are four schemes.
As per IRDAI (Micro Insurance) Regulations, 2015, the microinsurance business is exempted from customised benefit illustration6 and disclosure norms prescribed in IRDA (Linked and Non-Linked Insurance Products) Regulations. IRDAI’s latest circular on this continues to extend this exemption.
In this document, we present our response to the White Paper on the Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems (the White Paper) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in February 2020. We are deeply concerned that creating National Open Digital Ecosystems (NODEs) as envisioned in the White Paper could entrench existing problems with service delivery and hamper the growth of a free and fair digital economy.
In this blog post, we present our comments to the White Paper on Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems in response to the call for comments by MeitY
While phone access and ownership has been rising rapidly in India in recent years, women lag behind on access, usage and ownership of mobile phones across the world but especially in South Asia, including India.
In all our research efforts, we strive to maintain an independent voice that speaks for the low-income household and household enterprises. Our ability to perform this function is significantly enhanced by our commitment to disseminate as a pure public good, all the intellectual capital that we create.
