Tag: Financial Lives of Poor Households

This brief reviews the literature on the finances of platform workers in India and around the world.

In this paper, we document some key relationships between micro-level household behavior and macro-level aggregates for the Indian economy. Using the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Survey, we show that for the period 2014-19, the household-level savings rate around the median of the income distribution correlates strongly with, and has predictive power for, macro-aggregate variables such as the Wholesale Price Index and its rate of change, the Prime Lending Rate, the growth rate of bank credit for personal loans, the growth rate of industry-sector GDP, and the growth rate of bank credit to the household sector.

In this deck, we analyse the financial portfolios of Indian households adhering to different religious faiths

As part of the 5th Dvara Research Conference on Household Finance primer series, in this post we discuss the theme “Savings and Financial Behavior”

As part of the 5th Dvara Research Conference on Household Finance primer series, in this post we discuss the theme ‘Household Portfolios’

As part of the 5th Dvara Research Conference on Household Finance primer series, in this post we discuss the theme ‘Portfolios of Migrant Households’

In this brief, we look at how the financial portfolios of Indian households have changed over time, specifically between 2014 to 2020, using the Consumer Pyramid Household Survey collected and maintained by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.

In this paper, we document the growing informalization of India’s labour force, and the consequences of this phenomenon for the state of social protection in India

This working paper was accepted to the 4th Annual Conference of India Gold Policy Centre at IIM Ahmedabad

This chapter documents the growing informalization of India’s labour force and the consequences of this phenomenon for the state of social protection in India.