Senior Manager
Rahul Chatterjee is a Senior Manager in MSC’s Data & Insights Domain. He is a management professional with over 10 years of research experience gained through projects with international donor agencies, research firms, government agencies, NGOs and CSR departments in Asia and Africa. His areas of expertise include advanced data analytics, gender research, policy research, Financial Diaries based research, conceptualizing and implementing M&E systems, and data-driven program management.
Seven factors that determine the resilience and adaptive ability of smallholder farmers in Bihar
Smallholder farmers in the flood-prone state of Bihar need capital and support from system-level actors to increase their climate resilience. This blog identifies seven critical factors that can enable the building of climate resilience and adaptive strategies of smallholder farmers.
Jan 27, 2023
Jan 27, 2023
The impact of climate change and coping strategies adopted by smallholder farmers in Bihar
Smallholder farmers in Bihar face seasonal flooding, increasing heat, and variable rainfall, which hurt their crops, livelihoods, and health. Farmers in Muzaffarpur and Khagaria, two climate-vulnerable districts, use a range of coping and adaptation strategies in response to such increasing climate hazards. Read on to explore these in detail.
Jan 27, 2023
Traits of resilient and vulnerable smallholder farmers
Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to climate change in many different ways. We analyzed the lives and livelihoods of different types of farmers to assess how individuals and families either succeed to or fail to adapt to climate change and environmental stresses. We look at the role financial services, education, gender roles and responsibilities, and social norms play to determine resilience to climate change.
Jan 27, 2023
Unpacking the ground realities—what are we beginning to learn about women-owned businesses in Bangladesh?
The first of a series, this note explores who can we call a true woman business owner, whether they are a homogeneous group, and what challenges they face.
Jan 17, 2023
Jan 17, 2023
Women business diaries: Unpacking a 360-degree view of women-run businesses in Bangladesh
This blog introduces the Women Business Diaries research in Bangladesh and explains how this research will unpack a 360-degree view of women business owners.
Jan 16, 2023
Jan 16, 2023
Adopting a segmentation approach to serve enterprises in Kenya: Insights from the FinAccess Household Survey 2021
We used the FinAccess data to develop a composite score-based index. This index helped us segment these MSMEs based on their sophistication levels to identify their business needs and growth opportunities and maximize their business sophistication levels. In this blog, we discuss our findings from this segmentation exercise.
Dec 9, 2022
Aakash Mehrotra, Lakshay Jain, Rahul Chatterjee and Chinmay Dabhade
Dec 9, 2022
Aakash Mehrotra, Lakshay Jain, Rahul Chatterjee and Chinmay Dabhade
Women in open-air and cross-border trade in Kenya: Insights from the financial diaries research
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned MSC to conduct an action research program to enhance the quality and usage of digital financial services among female traders in open-air and cross-border markets in Kenya. We analyzed 6,000+ transactions in the research. Read our report to see the findings from these financial diaries research.
Aug 31, 2022
Aug 31, 2022
Assessment of the implementation and usage of QRIS among small and micro-merchants in Indonesia
This report summarizes the findings from the study conducted to understand the implementation status of the Quick Response Indonesia Standard. The study highlights key aspects that encourage QRIS use by small and medium enterprises and recommendations for increasing its adoption in the country.
Jul 26, 2022
Ira Aprilianti, Louie Cepe, Rahul Chatterjee and Sneha Sampath
Jul 26, 2022
Ira Aprilianti, Louie Cepe, Rahul Chatterjee and Sneha Sampath