Tag: Akhand Tiwari

The economies have been hit already—we now need palliatives and ultimately cures

An economic pandemic is upon us as the COVID-19 infection continues to spread around world, affecting a billion people from the low-income segment. Our blog looks at why policymakers need a feedback loop of evidence-based information for governments to develop and deploy effective policy measures.

Apr 14, 2020

Akhand Tiwari, Doreen Ahimbisibwe, Agnes Salyanty, Manoj Pandey, Rahul Chatterjee and Rahmatika Febrianti

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Agent Network Accelerator Research Survey – India Country Report 2017

MicroSave conducted the second wave of the ANA survey India in 2017. This wave of ANA builds on the findings of the first wave undertaken in 2015.

Feb 14, 2018

Aakash Mehrotra, Akhand Tiwari, Karthick Morchan, Mimansa Khanna and Vivek Khanna

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Addressing the Soil Health Crisis in India

The Prime Minister in India launched a “Soil Health Card” (SHC) scheme to rejuvenate India’s exhausted soil. How behavioural approach can help in understanding the needs of the farmers

Jul 21, 2017

Akhand Tiwari and Abhishek Gupta

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The Four Zones: A Missing Chapter in the Financial Inclusion Guidebook

The blog focuses on the four personas that represent the majority of the mass market that has been the target for financial inclusion in India

May 23, 2017

Akhand Tiwari and Saborni Poddar

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Lessons from Orality for Digital Financial Services Development

At 6:30 a.m.,in a busy wholesale vegetable market on the outskirts of Varanasi, Shanti Devi is haggling with the wholesale vendor of cauliflower. The price is negotiated at ₹300 a sack. Shanti takes out two ₹500 currency notes from her batua (cloth purse) and hands it to the vendor for two sacks. The vendor hands […]

May 16, 2017

Brett Hudson Matthews, Akhand Tiwari and Vivek Anand

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Balancing Left-Right Bias in User-Centric Design Processes

This Note gives glimpse of the approach through which MicroSave is able to engage business managers in design process and ensure ownership and feasibility of the product designed.

Dec 11, 2015

Akhand Tiwari and Premasis Mukherjee

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