Tag: Uttar Pradesh

High-Hanging Fruit and Easy Catch—Merchants who need additional “hooks” and hand-holding

This is the third blog from the “Digitizing merchant payments in India” series. It draws from earlier blogs in this series and examines two personas of the merchant ecosystem—high-hanging fruits and easy-catch merchants.

Mar 19, 2019

Priya Garg, Sunil Bhat, Amit Joshi, Kritika Shukla and Shreya Gupta

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DBT in education: A study on delivery of in-kind benefits to elementary school students in Uttar Pradesh

Our study in Uttar Pradesh on DBT in education specifically looks at in-kind benefits transfers to school children.

Oct 31, 2018

Aishwarya Singh, Mitul Thapliyal, Neha Parakh, Nishant Saindane and Vijay Ravi

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Between literacy and learning: Community engagement in public education – Part 1

For a child’s effective education, parents and the community as a whole play a key role. Studies have shown parental engagement improves a child’s achievements. While initiatives like Right to Education Act, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and mid-day meal programme nudge the children to attend school, but the learning outcome also depends on parents’ engagement at home. Read the article for more.

Oct 5, 2018

Neha Parakh and Saborni Poddar

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Learnings from Cash Economy for DFS Providers

The blog focuses on “Orality” which refers to the modes of thinking, speaking and managing information in societies where technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most people.

May 17, 2017

Brett Hudson Matthews and Richa Valechha

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The Curious Case of Missing Agents in Rural India

This note highlights the survey conducted by MicroSave covering five districts of U.P and Bihar, to ascertain the real presence of CSPs and their activity levels.

Jan 24, 2014

Akhand Tiwari, Mukesh Sadana, Puneet Chopra and Lokesh Singh

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Savings perceptions and preferences in India – The relative risk to the savings of the poor

MicroSave conducted a study in three different Indian states – Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu this past year to seeks answers to the following questions: How do poor people save and what works best for them among the formal, semi-formal, and informal choices available? Why do they choose one investment or savings versus another, […]

Feb 1, 2012

Minakshi Ramji, Akhand Tiwari and Ann Platt

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