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Category: Blog

Are we over-selling start-ups as a career option?

Every startup success story shows up alongside 10 failures; still, entrepreneurship is an attractive career proposition for our youth. In more than 90% of cases, the founders would fail to repay these loans, leaving meaningful relationships with their trusted ones fractured and damaged. Is this a price worth paying? This blog discusses an unfashionable perspective on starting up and shares our experience accelerating startups in Asia while orienting them toward success.

Feb 17, 2022

Graham Wright, Anil Gupta and Abhinav Guptha

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Feb 17, 2022

Graham Wright, Anil Gupta and Abhinav Guptha

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Putting India’s demographic dividend to work: Skill development for a digital economy

India sees 13 million young people joining the workforce every year. Yet many cannot get employment. Overwhelmingly, 70% of the workforce is still engaged in the informal sector, which does not provide job benefits like the safety of tenure or a social safety net. Amid this, India is undergoing a digital transformation, offering a pathway for gainful economic opportunities for the young in India. In this blog, we discuss the need to expand the current skilling architecture in India to help the young thrive in the digital economy. The blog also offers specific recommendations on its implementation.

Feb 16, 2022

Byomkesh Mishra and Manoj Nayak

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Feb 16, 2022

Byomkesh Mishra and Manoj Nayak

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A fine-tuned approach to digital platform design and development in Africa—Part II

This is the second of a two-blog series examining the Jobtech market in Africa. In this series, we explore the growth of digital platforms and the constraints to sustainability. We offer recommendations on building platforms in an informal economy and explore some systemic constraints that hinder the sustainability and scalability of job-matching platforms in Africa.

Feb 15, 2022

Jenifer Shapiro

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Feb 15, 2022

Jenifer Shapiro

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A fine-tuned approach to digital platform design and development in Africa—Part I

This is the first of a two-blog series examining the Jobtech market in Africa. In this series, we explore the growth of digital platforms and the constraints to sustainability. We offer recommendations on building platforms in an informal economy and explore some systemic constraints that hinder the sustainability and scalability of job-matching platforms in Africa.

Feb 14, 2022

Jenifer Shapiro

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Feb 14, 2022

Jenifer Shapiro

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What will it take for eSanjeevaniOPD to help tackle the third COVID-19 wave and future pandemics?

This briefing note shares our insights and recommendations from our pilot to strengthen eSanjeevaniOPD—the Government of India’s teleconsultation platform and similar private platforms.

Feb 7, 2022

Manmohan Singh, Atulya Mishra, Puneet Khanduja and Akhand Tiwari

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Feb 7, 2022

Manmohan Singh, Atulya Mishra, Puneet Khanduja and Akhand Tiwari

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“Train me like this”: Lessons from a pilot with CDOT and JRGB on CICO agent training

As per the RBI guidelines, BC agents need to clear the IIBF BC/BF examination to continue offering BC services. However, CDOT, a BCNM, faced issues while helping its agents clear the IIBF BC examination. This deck details the concept we tested to increase the pass percentage of CDOT agents.

Feb 3, 2022

Akhand Tiwari, Gayatri Pandey, Moinuddin Mohammed, Ravi Kant and Raghuveer Dinavahi

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Feb 3, 2022

Akhand Tiwari, Gayatri Pandey, Moinuddin Mohammed, Ravi Kant and Raghuveer Dinavahi

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