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Resource Type: Research papers

Anurodh Giri, Ritesh Rautela, Saborni Poddar, Karthick Morchan, Vikram Sharma, Mitul Thapliyal and Dr. Puneet Khanduja

Direct Benefit Transfer in Fertilizer: Fourth round of concurrent evaluation—A...

NITI Aayog engaged MSC in a nationally representative study on DBT in fertilizer. This report...
Oct 22, 2019

Anurodh Giri, Ritesh Rautela, Vikram Sharma, Sneha Sampath and Mitul Thapliyal

Experimenting with cash transfers in food subsidies – Lessons from...

This case study discusses a unique experiment of distributing food subsidy in the Nagri block...
Oct 22, 2019

Stuart Rutherford

Ambition and debt

Part of our Low Income Lives series, this blog reveals how rickshaw driver Abul from...
Aug 27, 2019

Stuart Rutherford

Something to fall back on (Managing income volatility)

As part of the Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project, MSC tracked the income of a brick-breaker...
Aug 26, 2019

Dan Brockington

The strange neglect of diversity within microfinance institutions

This blog is Dan Brockington’s highlights on how the branch performance in BRAC-Tanzania varies considerably...
Aug 26, 2019

Stuart Rutherford and Rahul Chatterjee

Micro-entrepreneurs and occupational hazards: Why do poor people settle for...

In this blog, we highlight why the poor wish to engage in unskilled labor and...
Aug 26, 2019
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