Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

April 3, 2012 | Dvara Research

In our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post represents the second part in a two part series that charts out the historical evolution of the various sources of consumers’ rights in India today.

By Jayshree Venkatesan
March 30, 2012

Lok Capital, a venture capital firm, and one of its limited partners, Proparco, the private sector investment arm of the French development agency AFD, have together invested $5 million in IFMR Rural Channels.

March 23, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post represents the first part in a two part series that charts out the historical evolution of the various sources of consumers’ rights in India today.

By Jayanth Srinivasan
March 20, 2012 | Dvara Research

This post is a continuation of our Consumer Protection blog series. The next two posts would look at the Evolution of Consumer Protection Laws in India.

By Deepti George, Darshana Rajendran
March 15, 2012 | Dvara Research

This post first appeared as part of CGAP's series on "Financial Capability and Bridging the Gap".

By Dvara Research
March 13, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post studies an important South African legislation aimed at consumer protection and also looks at the overall landscape for consumer recourse in the South African Financial Services sector.

By Darshana Rajendran
March 6, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing our series of posts on Consumer Protection, this post looks at the approaches to financial regulation and supervision and studies the financial regulatory structure of South Africa.

By Darshana Rajendran
February 28, 2012 | Dvara Research

Subsequent to our earlier post in the Consumer Protection series, this post covers conduct and disclosure obligations of Australian Financial Services (AFS) License holders for provision of advice to retail clients.

By Deepti George
February 24, 2012 | Dvara Research

Every day, billions of low-income households all over the world are saving, borrowing and insuring in myriad ways, formal and informal.

February 21, 2012 | Dvara Research

Continuing on our series on ‘Consumer Protection’, we will take a look at how consumer protection has found its place within the regulatory architecture of select countries, namely Australia and South Africa.

By Deepti George