Tag: Covid-19-Pandemic

In this post, we analyse CoWIN, a digtial platform which facilates India’s vaccination effort

In this blog post, we attempt to unpack a crucial question, how effective could the CSC model of facilitating vaccine registration be?

This post reviews various sources of literature on how COVID-19 has affected migrant households & conclude by summarises some of the recommendations provided by sector experts

This brief presents the evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on the daily life of low-income households from a fortnightly panel survey conducted by Dvara Research

The Social Protection Initiative at Dvara Research has collaborated with the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) to document the accessibility of key banking facilities during the COVID-19 lockdown.

In this blog post, we analyse migrant risks and work choices

In this post, we investigate the cost of Interest on Interest (IoI), that emerged out of the RBI’s policy to grant a 6-month debt moratorium

In the wake of COVID-19 related lockdown and the resultant impact on the financial lives of millions of households, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved a series of regulatory measures, which among others, enabled lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a 6 month-repayment moratorium on term loans. A debt moratorium at this scale […]

This policy brief examines the implications of debt moratorium in the context of microcredit

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